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Mike Cane

2005-07-31, 21:33

A papercast blog entry about the 770
http://papercast.blogsome.com/2005/06/11/nokia-770-internet-tablet/
-- go look, it's interesting.

One of those chi-chi mag websites mentions the 770
http://www.adversus.com/gadgetselectronics/nokia770internettablet/index.html

Mobile Linux, with a 770 mention
http://ajay_sethi.blogspot.com/2005/06/mobile-linux.html

Factor thoughts and dreams
http://yvan.godin.free.fr/wordpress/index.php?p=4
>>>Factor is a new programming language from Slava Pestov combining some forth, lisp and joy concepts in a great portable environment. Very good key features and a lot of good ideas .. I really like it.
>>>My ultimate dream: Factor runing on MAEMO with ARM back end compiler. I plan to buy the NOKIA 770 by the end of this year and I really like to use it for Factor coding pending my long (3H) daily transport in the train to go to work. Factor need few sign for write code so it should be possible even with the tactile keyboard.

Nokia Tablet-Handheld mit Linux
http://www.industrial-technology-and-witchcraft.de/index.php/ITW/14730/
-- a generic mention, but I like this website's cheeky name!

Get this…
http://s93111428.onlinehome.us/?p=30
>>>I am writing this with the Nokia 770 tablet… I managed to get my hands on one… and I must say, I am impressed.

Nokia, el pingüino y el duende
http://www.mazziblog.com.ar/blog/index/archivos/2005/06/03/nokia-el-pinguino-y-el-duende
-- a generic mention, in Spanish I guess. But the entire site is interesting:
http://www.mazziblog.com.ar/blog/index/archivos/categoria/tecnologia/software/
And here is some *really* interesting news I found from it --
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/
-- God Bless Ed Wood, Jr!

Re: [PATCH] Dynamic tick for x86 version 050602-2
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/1/message/77756/flat
>>>Yes, we did dyntick originally for ARM OMAP and 770.
-- might as well be Martian, for all I don't understand this.

Exclusive: New national Wi-Fi network could threaten radio
http://radio.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/5/25/884912.html
>>>Canada’s major cellular providers (competitors, remember) have just joined forces to create a single Wi-Fi network across the country. They plan to have more than 500 new hotspot locations.
>>>I can use one of these new Nokia 770 Internet Tablets and listen to MP3's on the fly. The Portable Streaming Internet Receiver.

GUADEC 6
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/weblog.php/2005/Jun/02#guadec6?flav=php
>>>Was extremely happy about Fluendo and Imendio involvment in the perfect wardriving device, the Nokia 770 development.

Nokia choose to work with Fluendo on GStreamer multimedia framework for embedded devices
http://www.fluendo.com/

What is Imendio?
http://imendio.com/

Of Debian, Gnome and Nokia
http://tabo.aurealsys.com/archives/2005/05/25/of-debian-gnome-and-nokia/
-- this is another interesting site; scroll to the article about Debian vulnerabilities. I hope Nokia has patched all that in Maemo!
http://tabo.aurealsys.com/

RogerS

2005-08-01, 12:57

Hey, this looks like a good place to be!

Tripped over this today --
http://planet.maemo.org/

Feeds from Nokia 770 sites. Expect they'll pick you up soon.

Roger

Teleread (e-books: http://teleread.org/blog )
Electric Forest (digital libraries: http://altheim.com/ef )

Masamune

2005-08-01, 13:17

Greetings.

I've got a couple of Symbian and PDA type mettings to attend over the next couple of months - If I see anything Tablet-flavoured, I'll try and get some images and maybe even video of it in action.

Mike Cane

2005-08-01, 17:23

Nokia chief ends 13-year reign
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9076-1717022,00.html
>>>Jorma Ollila, the man who orchestrated Nokia’s transition from a diversified industrial group to the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, is to step down as chief executive, the company announced today.

Good God! New leaders coming to Nokia. This is a surprise.

And it comes on the same day as the launch of *this* site.

Coincidence?

-- edited to add:

To see Ollila and his successor pictured together, see --
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-08-01T162629Z_01_L01623575_RTRIDST_0_TECH-NOKIA-OLLILA-DC.XML

alslayer

2005-08-01, 17:27

planet.maemo.org has put up some of my posts which kinda feels weird. But I did get some people to come to my site from them. So I am ok with them.

My site is really taking off. I have gone from 1 hit a day to 2 hits a day. I am so happy.

:)

Mike Cane

2005-08-01, 17:36

The Inquirer's cheeky take on the change in Nokia leadership

Harley rider gets boot from Nokia
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25051
-- what they miss by choosing to be cheeky instead of *thorough* is that Ollila was a *banker*. He came over to Nokia from Citibank Oy! He had been tasked with bringing some Nokia financial business over to Citibank.

So although Kallasvuo was a "bean counter" -- hey, so was Ollila!

-- edited to add:

A large picture of Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is here --
http://www.wral.com/apbusinessnews/4793484/detail.html
-- can't be one of his good days...

Mike Cane

2005-08-01, 18:27

Two non-Nokia/770 items, but related sorta:

Five addictive open source games
http://entertainment.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/07/25/1436216&from=rss
-- these all seem to be Java-based. The 770's initial model lacks Java. Let's hope it will get it.

Nintendo launches massive Wi-Fi advertising campaign for DS
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25042
-- if adults see their *kids* doing WiFi, maybe they'll wonder if there is an *adult* device for getting it. Could help 770 awareness and sales.

Masamune

2005-08-02, 08:12

Nintendo launches massive Wi-Fi advertising campaign for DS
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25042
-- if adults see their *kids* doing WiFi, maybe they'll wonder if there is an *adult* device for getting it. Could help 770 awareness and sales.

There is - it's called a PSP...

I see what you're saying though. At present, the 770 doesn't have the geek factor associated with PDAs, given that it's being sold at the consumer market rather than the business market.

Reggie

2005-08-02, 14:08

Hey, this looks like a good place to be!

Tripped over this today --
http://planet.maemo.org/

Feeds from Nokia 770 sites. Expect they'll pick you up soon.

I sent an email to Erkko Antitla of Nokia, and he has requested to have Internet Tablet Talk added to Maemo Planet feed list. :)

Thanks Roger.

Btw, I added TeleRead in itT's Ebook Sites.

Mike Cane

2005-08-02, 15:27

Take 3. Firefox managed to crash the first two times I tried to post this live, sending my words to Electron Hell. I've redone the post in WordPad to copy and paste...

Today's entries are more Nokia-related than 770-specific...

Leader: Nokia's new CEO
http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39150970,00.htm
-- a good overview of the transition.

Top global brands: Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, Intel, Nokia
http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=8526&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
-- go Nokia!

Finnish finance minister satisfied with new Nokia CEO
http://virtual.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=9457&group=Business
-- I like this display of nationalism. Wish we had it too!

Nokia stays ahead as entry-level phones boost world handset sales
http://www.terra.net.lb/wp/Articles/DesktopArticle.aspx?ArticleID=237082&ChannelId=16
-- I hate cellphones, but the $$$ they bring in will be subsidizing the 770. Go buy some Nokia phones!

Nokia 8800
http://www.zdnet.com.au/reviews/coolgear/mobiles/soa/Nokia_8800/0,39023387,39205204,00.htm
-- Nokia's posh new cellphone. Bah!

Finns are what they used to be over at Nokia
http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/44105-print.shtml
-- Scottish newspaper gets nasty.

Nokia's global egomania
http://mbites.com/node/480
>>>Nokia continues to want to take over the world. I am in Helsinki at one of their press conferences where no-one really answers questions. "What do you plan to do about Happy Slapping? Parental controls on the handsets?" I ask. The answer comes back that it's "down to parents to exercise control". Sure, but what happens when all those Nokia handsets get confiscated by schools, huh guys?
-- the two sites he lists for additional info seem to have none. Nokia isn't the only vendor of cellphones with cameras. To try to place the blame for psychos doing Happy Slapping on Nokia's doorstep is its own brand of egomania. If not outright psychosis. I say we should go whole hog and just ban human beings!

770-related, a bunch of sites picked up on Doom being a scorcher on the 770 --

Doom runs well on the Nokia 770
http://www.computeralchemy.com/2005/08/01/doom-runs-well-on-the-nokia-770/

DOOM on the Nokia 770
http://www.cellions.com/cell-phones/doom_on_the_nokia_770.html

Doom runs well on the Nokia 770
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000923052721/

Playing Doom on a Nokia 770
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4617

-- who knew there was so much interest in a zoomzoomgame? I'll have to try it out myself when I get a 770.

Accomodating the nomadic digital lifestyle
http://eirepreneur.blogs.com/eirepreneur/2005/08/accomodating_th.html

Web Tablets Are Coming
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008558.html
>>>A couple months ago when I first saw the news of the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, I couldn't figure out why anyone would want the thing - it's not a PDA or a phone or a computer. But that's all changed now - using my PSP as an instant-on Web Tablet has completely opened my eyes.
>>>I'm now a lot more bullish on Nokia's Internet Tablet - it has instant on as well, has better screen resolution than the PSP (though I think it's physically smaller overall) and though it does have a stylus, hopefully this will be a good thing as it'll let me tap in URLs without so much trouble. Also, it's Linux Debian based so it's going to have a ton of neat apps ready for it as well...
-- uh oh. Russell Beattie is now excited about the 770. Get rid of that PSP toy, Russell! Join the HotSpot Men!

Nokia 770
http://www.teknoskop.net/post/80
-- specs in a language I have no idea what it could be.

Mike Cane

2005-08-02, 15:57

BusinessWeek Online
Can Nokia Read the Signals?
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/bw/20050802/bs_bw/tc20050827457tc024
-- it really amazes me that in the millions of words of analysis of Nokia's top-level change and their challenges in the cellphone marketplace, *not one* article has mentioned the 770! The 770 is Nokia's most significant product -- how long will it take for these people to catch up?

I hope *Kallasvuo* understands the importance of the 770!

Mike Cane

2005-08-02, 16:05

QuickTime Alternative 1.60 Beta 2
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm

I put this here to actually solicit an *answer* in this thread. The 770 does not support QuickTime. Is there such a beast for Linux, and the Debian flavor, at all? Does anyone know if the above could be ported to Maemo?

And this now makes me wonder about something else too: can Windows Media Video play under Linux? Is there such a player? And could it be ported to Maemo?

According to Nokia, the 770 video support includes MPEG1, MPEG4, Real Video, H.263, AVI, 3GP. I think we'll still need/want WMV and QT.

Mike Cane

2005-08-02, 16:18

Here are two oldies published back in May that just surfaced. Worth a look.

Nokia 770 SDK
http://www.unmediated.org/archives/2005/05/nokia_770_sdk_1.php
-- I don't think I've seen this 770 photo before.

Why Nokia 770 is important for Linux
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Why-Nokia-770-is-important-for-Linux-2341.shtml

Mike Cane

2005-08-02, 23:21

Top 20 Innovative Companies in the World
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_31/b3945407.htm
-- Nokia's there.

Symbian Not in Nokia's Future?
http://www.psionplace.com/articles/2005/8/2005-8-2-Symbian-Not-in.html
>>>Nokia didn't say why it chose not to use the Symbian OS for the 770. At the time of the 770's announcement, the company's vice president of convergence products Janne Jormalainen told internetnews, "This is the first step in creating an open-source product for broadband and Internet services."

tiistai
http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/ChangeLog/2005_08_01_changelog.html#112300599175438136
>>>Zoals bekend, werk ik hier bij Nokia aan het Nokia 770 Internet Applet, een apparaatje gebaseerd op Linux en Gnome technologie. Best leuk. En we zijn nog op zoek naar mensen om het project te komen versterken, hier in Helsinki. Kijk hier, het gaat om hackers, project-managers etc. Ik ben beschikbaar voor vragen etc., via email/IM.
>>>Iemand heeft Doom geport naar de 770!!!
-- come now, I don't really need to Babelfish that, do I?

mobile monday austin
http://www.eriksmartt.com/blog/archives/146
>>> Now for something completely different. The Nokia 770 has been on my list of lust-worthy technology since I first heard about it. This is a pocketable linux tablet with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, a nice browser, and applications for streaming media. And to top it off, the whole platform is open source. I had the pleasure of playing with a prototype 770 last week, and I definitely wasn’t disappointed. The screen is fantastic, and I could easily see this device being used for casual browsing instead of lugging around a laptop. It really is that nice. And being linux-based, this thing is going to get a HUGE number of applications (at least the kind that geeks like me like.)

I Have PSP Version 1.50 and Will Upgrade to 2.0 When It Comes Out
http://blog.enargi.com/psp/i-have-psp-version-150-and-will-upgrade-to-20-when-it-comes-out/
>>>Also I like an idea of having portable web browser device. It gets you expirence similar to anticipated Nokia 770, for free with 2.0.
-- yeah, right. Have fun putting in those URLs l-e-t-t-e-r-b-y-l-e-t-t-e-r. Using b-u-t-t-o-n-s. Don't even *think* about composing email, pal!

Doom runs well on the Nokia 770
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000333052814/
>>>It’s impressive, but still, it’s Doom. Your toaster will be running doom at 120 FPS in three years. Can’t we just fast skip the next decade and get to the point when Doom4 will run that smoothly on a wristwatch?
-- well, this begs the question: Which zoomzoomgame would impress this guy on the 770?!

Holy Makeover, Batman!
http://nokia770.com/
-- gets a new look that is just plain weird. What's with the grass?!

Mike Cane

2005-08-02, 23:49

CNet reviews Sony PSP web browser
http://www.psphome.com/index.php?do=viewarticle&id=274
-- he gives a concise summary. But I'll be damned -- he doesn't provide any link to the source and I've just spent ten minutes of agony going through the CNet site and came up empty! I'll say one thing for this browser: it does Java. That the 770 will ship without Java is a shame.

Ten things I hate about the PSP
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6449_7-6061582.html
-- some of these have actually been addressed by Sony. But what this guy *really* wants is a 770! He just doesn't realize that yet.

Hotspot Zone
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6659_7-726628-1.html?tag=fs
-- OK, so I couldn't find that PSP browser review, but I did come across this!
>>>Want the Web wherever, whenever? The same wireless networking that is invading homes and offices is now going public, with thousands of so-called hot spots throughout the United States. All you need is a notebook or other device with Wi-Fi, and you can get high-speed access at cafes, airports, and hotels. Whether you subscribe to a commercial service such as Boingo or T-Mobile HotSpot or go it alone with a community connection, chances are there's a hot spot right around the corner. For a list of nearby hot spots, just enter your zip code and click Go. Or if you have something more specific in mind, you can fill out any of the power search options.
-- this should be the First Bookmark for 770 owners!

Nokia 770 Runs DOOM Fast - Demo Video
http://spaces.msn.com/members/V1r7u4L-Blog/Blog/cns!1pXXYxESztaUuRONnHu4Vw2A!1271.entry
-- another site that links to itT.

The Next Big Thing
http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=3331
-- Roger, you don't want that PSP!

Masamune

2005-08-03, 08:38

* COMING SOON * - Masa's PSP article. At the moment it's half PSP, half Clie. I'll post the original version up and then do a mini article about why a PSP will never be as good as an iT (Internet Tablet) for browsing and email.

Mike Cane

2005-08-03, 12:48

Nokia’s ingenious marketing campaign
http://www.gizmag.com/go/4365/
-- these are smart lads. What does MS use to pimp itself? A gas-guzzling earth-destroying stretch Hummer!

Nokia sees Australia's wireless future
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id%3B418634210%3Bfp%3B2%3Bfpid%3B1
>>>Australia is leading the world in adopting wireless and mobile technology, according to communications giant Nokia.

>>>More than a quarter of the Australian workforce is now "mobile", said Bob Brace, Nokia's vice president of mobile solutions. Brace is in Australia to give a keynote presentation at IDC's Enterprise Mobility conference in Sydney this week.

>>>"Australia is (culturally) not adverse to taking up new technology and tweaking it to suit them," he said.

>>>"Whereas in the US market, for example, there's often a general perception that if it wasn't developed there it's not any good."
-- I don't like that last bit.

Nokia reveals HS-12W headset, aka the 8800 sidekick
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/6081.html
-- earpiece for that posh cellphone.

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet -poimintoja
http://lehto.net/blogi/2005/08/nokia-770-internet-tablet-poimintoja.htm
-- in Finnish, and mentions Doom.

One more thing that should be mentioned.
http://logan.com/chris/2005/08/one-more-thing-that-should-be.html
>>>The perfect device to surf the web while watching football (when the wife is with my laptop) will hit the streets in the next couple of months. This could be the next great toy!

>>>Getting TiVo was just the start.... The Nokia 770 looks like it was made for me. Check out the Internet Tablet Talk web site for some up-to-the minute fanboy gossip on this kewl device.
-- "fanboy"?!!!? Why you...

Doom для Nokia 770
http://www.playgizmo.ru/?p=410
-- people love this zoomzoomgame...

Doom runs well on the Nokia 770
http://www.phonenews.net/doom-runs-well-on-the-nokia-770,3125.html
-- looks like one of those roboblogs.

Pełnowymiarowy Doom na Nokii 770
http://www.pinkdot.pl/?p=120
-- more Doom!

Viagra for the nerd
http://thecoredump.org/articles/2005/08/02/viagra-for-the-nerd
>>>Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. How many times have you been sitting on the patio or the couch, enjoying some quiet intarweb surfing, but there's an itch, a splinter in your mind to quote Morpheus: My laptop is too big. I should not need something this big to surf the web. And now Nokia has felt your pain. Will supposedly cost around $350 whenever they get around to releasing it. Based on Debian, so all kinds of nifty software can be compiled for it.
-- good lad!

Nokia 770 Runs DOOM Fast - Demo Video
http://spaces.msn.com/members/V1r7u4L-Blog/Blog/cns!1pXXYxESztaUuRONnHu4Vw2A!1271.entry
-- right, the 770 is DOOMed. (hmmm... in Preview, this URL looks unclickable. Maybe Reggie can fix that.)

Mike Cane

2005-08-03, 13:00

Nokia and eCompany offer joint iZone promotion
http://www.ameinfo.com/65305.html
>>>iZones are WiFi 'hotspots' located throughout the UAE where residents and visitors alike can log on to a high-speed wireless network to access the internet.

>>>Between now and the end of October, consumers who purchase a Nokia 9500 Communicator - which uses smart-rendering technology for fast and effective WiFi Internet browsing on a wide, rich colour screen - will receive a free iZone Prepaid card worth Dhs. 120 for a full 12 hours of wireless iZone access. The card can be used to log on to the Internet at iZones for 60 days from the date of the first log on.
-- UAE = United Arab Emirates. For those of us who thought America has been on the cutting edge, I got news for you: Thanks to the non-policies of this current Administration, we have fallen to just about *Third World status* in telecommunications. Japan, to cite one example, offers broadband that is SIXTEEN TIMES our speed at ONE-HALF THE PRICE. Now aren't you feeling silly for laughing at Al Gore pimping the "Information Superhighway"? At least *he* knew it *existed*!

-- edited to add:

GSM Arena: The Nokia N90 is one of the top 10 best photo mobiles.
http://www.symplification.com/node/206
>>>Indeed, the conclusion seems to be that the N90 is one of the best phone cameras around. This is a very very safe conclusion, because it is only the 2nd phone with a >1.3MP sensor and autofocus to have been released worldwide.
-- Nokia's other posh phone.

Mike Cane

2005-08-03, 13:14

Has the notebook-to-handheld conversion begun?
http://news.com.com/2102-1005_3-5815979.html?tag=st.util.print
>>>The push behind the trend comes from the confluence of several factors favorable to handhelds. First, the devices themselves and the data networks that carry traffic are far more sophisticated than they were several years ago. Corporate applications such as databases and customer relationship management (CRM) software can also be accessed through handhelds.
-- hello 770!

Casinos Wager on Handhelds
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,68399,00.html
>>>CARSON CITY, Nevada -- It won't be long before gamblers are shooting dice while queued up waiting to see their favorite comedian. Or playing poker and roulette under a poolside umbrella. Even a trip to the buffet will no longer keep casino patrons from playing slots. A law signed last month by Gov. Kenny Guinn made Nevada the first U.S. state to approve the use of wireless, handheld gambling devices at its hotel-casinos.
-- hello again 770!

Mike Cane

2005-08-03, 17:11

Nokia Theatre Times Square Set for September New York City Debut
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=ind_focus.story&STORY=/www/story/08-03-2005/0004081564&EDATE=WED+Aug+03+2005,+10:49+AM
>>>Nokia Theatre Times Square, located at 1515 Broadway, the corner of Broadway and 44th Street in the Viacom/MTV building, will be an innovative, multi-use theater that can be transformed to accommodate a wide array of events including concerts, live television and web broadcasts [...]

>>>Included in the theatre will be the Nokia Lounge which will provide a relaxing atmosphere where guests and fans will have the opportunity to charge their wireless phones, get hands-on experience with new Nokia products and services, download mobile content like games, videos and ring tones and enter promotions among other activities. In addition, Studio Red, a division of Rockwell Group, have created a three dimensional connection between great entertainment and the Nokia Mobile experience with the Nokia Lounge, Vision Wall and equalizer.
-- so, that's a mystery now solved. Right, when will Morrissey appear?

Nokia N-Gage QD Available In Silver
http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=1554
>>>Today Nokia announced that it will be releasing a special "Silver Edition" N-Gage QD handset in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Other than the color, the device is no different from the original QD that was announced back in April of 2004. Nokia expects the silver QD to be available in retail outlets on September 1st of this year.
-- the N-Gage matters in that it shows Nokia's determination to create a market and try to make it work. Time will tell with this one.

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet - A Real Cutie
http://blogoehlert.typepad.com/eclippings/2005/08/nokia_770_inter.html
>>>I think Nokia has really cracked the code here, the design look awesome, check out the other photos for some better views with more perspective.

Command line on 770
http://nokia770.com/index.php/101/
-- he shows a photo too! Go look!

Mike Cane

2005-08-03, 17:31

Mike Cane

2005-08-03, 17:56

200 KBPS is Not Broadband
http://gigaom.com/2005/08/02/200-kbps-is-not-broadband/
>>>According to TeleTruth, the U.S. is actually 16th in the world in terms of broadband connectivity.
-- following up on my earlier comments about the US being at Third World-level in terms of our telecom.

See also:
Y Tori Kan’t Browse - Broadband Ain’t Broadband
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/y-tori-kant-browse-broadband-aint-broadband-115653.php
>>>In truth, the U.S. is 16th in terms of real broadband penetration, after just about every other developed country in the world. This is absolutely ridiculous. Oh, but wait! We have 3G and CDMA running at 100 kbps in an open field on a clear day 50 feet from a cell tower. We’re living in Future Town! Robot, fetch me my food pills.

Startups vie to make Linux more attractive with bundled offerings
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/infoworld/20050803/tc_infoworld/64777
>>>San Francisco (InfoWorld) - Integrating open source applications is a task daunting enough to lead some companies toward proprietary products. To that end, a several startups this week revealed plans to offer prebuilt, certified solutions so customers have fewer integration migraines
-- very interesting. The kind of apps they mention just cry out for a client that will run on the 770 to allow wireless DB queries.

An open-source misstep at IBM?
>>>Nobody's questioning the massive contributions IBM makes to open source. But it goes to show how the open-source label can give and take away.
-- heed this, Nokia! Tread lightly! MS will be waiting for you to trip up -- like unintentionally alienating the Open Source whizzards.

Reggie

2005-08-03, 18:03

Aside from lacking Java, many people feel another fault of the 770 is that it lacks an IR port. Many people, seeing this as a device to use at home while watching TV, would like to also use it as a universal remote. This makes a lot of sense.

One reason I'd personally like to see an IR port on a future model is that I use this a lot:

http://www.wizcomtech.com/Wizcom/products/product_info.asp?fid=101

I hope Nokia is reading this!

I am hoping for an IR too! How can we now beam contacts and memos from a Nokia cellphone to the Nokia 770? ;) And how will I be able to use the Think Outside IR keyboard? :(

Mike, several from maemo-developers was asking for your blog to be added to Maemo Planet (http://planet.maemo.org). vBulletin can only create RSS feeds from threads not posts. :( I'll try to create a script to generate an RSS for your blog.

alslayer

2005-08-03, 20:30

I wanted IR too. It would be great with my IR keyboard. Plus the idea of a universal remote is very tempting. This would be my couch device.

One thing I think attracted me to the 770 is the design. It just looks so cool. I am tempted by nice looking stuff. Heck I bet thats why I have a Zodiac. My list for stuff the next 770 is growing.

Mike Cane

2005-08-04, 14:02

I pity the fools who come across this ersatz blog via RSS. Why try to destroy RSS like that?! And I don't see any info here that'd be of use to devs.

Don't forget: We can't even Bluetooth "beam" contacts and stuff, because 770's can't link via BT for security reasons. They can link via WiFi, though, but I don't know how transferring contacts and such would work. We need a dev who either has two devices or two devs who are in the same area to try out this WiFi linking business and to report on it.

While I'm here, I might as well mention a display bug I'm encoutering using Firefox. The forun software seems to extend beyond the border of the rounded "panel" display (the width of the itT logo) when I'm creating/previewing messages. Anyone else have this?

Mike Cane

2005-08-04, 14:18

Shell names Nokia outgoing CEO as non-exec chairman
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=businessNews&summit=&storyid=2005-08-04T101501Z_01_SPI424155_RTRUKOC_0_ENERGY-SHELL.xml
>>>AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell has chosen Jorma Ollila, chairman and chief executive of Finnish cellphone company Nokia, to be its non-executive chairman from June 1, 2006, the oil giant said on Thursday.
-- ow. Jorma, how can you do something So Major Dumb like this? It was you who made Nokia into an enviro-friendly global leader. And now you intend to pimp for an *oil* company? Do you *really* want to be splattered with the mess of the Middle East? Do you *really* want to lead a (no pun intended) dinosaur of a company? Do you *really* want to be seen as one of the enemies of alternative energy sources that are more earth-friendly and which would free us from the Oil Sheiks? Someone tell me I am hallucinating this.

Mike Cane

2005-08-04, 14:23

Memo to Jorma the Oil Pimp
Re: Death Squads

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/02/chevron_being_sued_i.html
-- make sure RDS doesn't have any!

Reggie

2005-08-04, 14:35

While I'm here, I might as well mention a display bug I'm encoutering using Firefox. The forun software seems to extend beyond the border of the rounded "panel" display (the width of the itT logo) when I'm creating/previewing messages. Anyone else have this?

It should be fixed. Thanks Mike.

Mike Cane

2005-08-04, 15:30

Reggie: It is indeed fixed. Thanks!

Now to entries...

Mobile phone operators - Urgh... Please Don't Steal My Content
http://mobile-phone-secrets.blogspot.com/2005/08/mobile-phone-operators-urgh-please.html
-- this is hilarious! This is a link to a roboblog, with a post by Beattie complaining about said roboblogs ripping off his stuff! Further, this site rips off his *entire* pro-PSP column (which mentions the 770) I linked to earlier.

Nokia Connection 2005
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/0506/15/news007.html
-- first, this was sourced from
http://m-company.seesaa.net/article/5553478.html
-- must give proper credit
-- the Thing To See at the first link are *new* pictures of the 770! Well, although the report (which is in Nihongo) is dated 2005/06/15, these are indeed pictures I've not seen on any other site. Check out the photo of Times Square. This is the photo that made my jaw drop when I saw it. The colors are just SO DAMNED VIBRANT on that screen! This photo *almost* but not quite captures that.

Nokia 770
http://www.maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10711/
>>>I’ve been babbling like a stoolie for Pepper here for the past couple weeks, but after some prodding by Roger Sperberg I’ve started to take a serious look at the Nokia 770 linux-based internet tablet.

KidSketch docs are out
http://nokia770.com/index.php/104/
>>>Daniel “NeoStrider” Monteiro published documentation for KidSketch, a simple graphics animation app for Nokia 770. He’s looking for fellow developers to help out

Gimp for Nokia 770 is coming?
http://nokia770.com/index.php/104/
>>>Internet Tablet Talk introduces KidSketch, a simplistic graphics animation app on Nokia 770, but Simon Budig at bigger things coming: Gimp on 770

Nokia 770
http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2005/08/nokia_770.html

Some notes --

1) I notice that the Nokia 770 Blog has undergone yet another makeover! The grass is gone. I like the clean look.

2) Some links -- such as the Palm Addict one -- link back to this site. I'm still going to include such things, despite the dreaded Recursion Factor.

3) When I quote from a site, do *not* assume I am grabbing *all* the text. In most cases, I am grabbing just enough to entice you to go visit that site for more. I want people to visit other sites. Cross-pollination and all that.

Mike Cane

2005-08-04, 15:41

Memo to Jorma the Oil Pimp
Re: Royal Dutch Shell is the Whore of Babylon

Please Change Your Mind about pimping for these creeps!

Shell Oil Lawsuit Continues Despite New Image
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0344253&mode=thread&tid=5

Ogoni Day
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0331242&mode=thread&tid=5
>>>Activists are demanding autonomy for the 500,000 Ogoni people in Nigeria as well as compensation from oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell for the environmental devastation caused to Ogoniland.

Fourth Anniversary of Saro Wiwa Execution
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0412252&mode=thread&tid=5
>>>Today, November 10th [1999], marks the fourth anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists, who were hanged in 1995 by the Nigerian military. The men were protesting the environmental devastation caused by Royal Dutch Shell in the Ogoniland region of Nigeria, and the multinational oil giant's involvement in the human rights abuses of Nigeria's brutal military regime under Sani Abacha. Human rights advocates around the world criticized Shell Oil for failing to come to aid of the nine activists in an attempt to save their lives.

Oilwatch
http://www.oilwatch.org.ec/english/index.htm

Mike Cane

2005-08-04, 15:47

Most likely I "blogged" this over at PIC, but it's worth a repeat here.

Nokia's CTO Says, "Keep It Simple"
http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,1078457,00.html
>>>As phones become increasingly complex, the industry must make them easier to use, says Pertti Korhonen, chief technology officer for Nokia. I sat down with Korhonen this week to sound him out on the industry and its future. Here are some excerpts from that interview.

RogerS

2005-08-04, 21:28

At that Japanese site you linked to, I ran across what turned out to be a reference to a report by Gartner on PDA shipments by OS. Here's one place that report is reported on:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7215702513.html

"Worldwide Q2 PDA shipments bounded up 32 percent year-over-year, to 3.6 million units, according to Gartner. Linux PDAs accounted for less than one percent of shipments, a figure likely to grow as PalmSource completes its transition to Linux, and as much-anticipated Linux PDAs such as Nokia's 770 ship."

And:
"The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet (pictured at right) is Nokia's first Linux product aimed at consumers, and its first entry into the PDA market. If early enthusiasm for the device holds up, it could well boost Linux to a comeback PDA OS market share."

-- Of course, the 770 will be recorded as a PDA for a long time yet, till this niche is well established. I'll be interested to see what the figures will look like a year from now.

Roger

Mike Cane

2005-08-05, 00:25

Roger keeps me on my toes, as usual...

Nokia N-Gage QD Silver Edition Comes to Europe
http://itreview.belproject.com/index.php?itemid=1677

The New Face of Royal Dutch Shell
>>>Jorma Ollila engineered a remarkable turnaround at Nokia, but getting the oil giant up to speed opens a whole new world of challenges
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2005/nf2005084_8534_db016.htm
>>>He [Ollila ] is also known for being highly ethical, which could help the oil giant polish its image.

>>>Since Ollila, 54, became head of Nokia in 1992, he has transformed Finland's leading company from a money-losing $3.6 billion a year conglomerate making everything from cables to televisions to the world's leading mobile-phone maker, with annual sales of about $40 billion. While not an oilman, Ollila is a quick study, with an engineering and financial background. He once worked at Citibank.
-- poor Jorma! Psssst: It's not too late to change your mind. You can always cite Family or Health.

Nokia 8800
http://www.infosyncworld.com/reviews/n/6085.html
>>>Nokia's fashion department keeps Sindre Lia busy; this time, the stainless-steel 8800 and its pop-up slider receives a solid work-out. Open, close. Open, close. Open, close...
-- also known as the Tungsten T3 Shuffle...

Alternative Access Devices?
http://libdev.plymouth.edu/post/3
>>>Two devices, the Pepper Pad and Nokia 770, have spawned renewed interest in internet access devices that aren’t PCs or computers as we know them. I had a chance to meet with the Pepper folks and get some hands-on time with a Pepper Pad and I’ve started to imagine some of the ways I’d like to use such a device in libraries.

Mike Cane

2005-08-05, 00:58

Infernal Devices
An Interview with Andrew Morton
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/interviews/5954/1/
>>>One of the most frequently cited difficulties transitioning to Linux (especially on the desktop) is that it can be difficult to find and integrate device drivers for new or obscure hardware. In addition, even when drivers are available, they may involve procedures that still strike terror into the hearts of newbies, such as recompiling the kernel. But is this really necessary? I rang up Linux Kernel guru Andrew Morton to discuss the state of Linux devices drivers in 2005.
-- by this time next year, it'll be Maemo, Maemo, Maemo...

Open Source Goes Main Street
http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=157348,00.asp
>>>Five years ago, if you had asked most people if open-source was a good basis for a business, they would have laughed at you. How things change.
-- next year...

RogerS

2005-08-05, 14:24

I'm always worried that the announcement of the 770's availability will take place without my being aware of it. So every day or two I go to the Nokia site and check the availability section of the FAQ. (No change yet.)

Today I also checked out another part of the FAQ and glancing over the features list I noticed for the first time this entry:

Pre-installed games (Chess, Marbles, Mahjong)

Well, apart from expecting Crazy Parking, this surprised me. Chess?! Way to go!

Roger

Reggie

2005-08-05, 15:17

I hope the games pre-intalled are multi-player ready. :)

I got to email someone from Nokia. I think they are targetting late September so apps as well as the hardware will are 'ready'.

Mike Cane

2005-08-05, 17:31

FBReader for Nokia 770
http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=3349
>>>Wow. Already there’s another e-book reader being ported to the Internet Tablet 2005 version of Linux! That means the Nokia 770 of course (still reported as arriving “in the 3rd quarter of 2005.”)
-- Roger Sperberg always finds another damned rabbit in his hat. I have to get a new hat.

The original Nokia press site for the 770
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,6771,75366,00.html

Matkapuhelinfoorumi
Nokia 770 (Internet Tablet Version 2005)
http://www.matkapuhelininfo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44760&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=2a2c75962e42d75646a2fbd424eeb2b5
-- this is all in Finnish. Go ahead, scare your brain by trying to make sense of it! Thanks to James Kendrick (cited in first post; he's that jk!). This forum also included several links, the following of which are the most interesting:

Nokia esitteli Linux-pohjaisen nettipäätteen
http://www.tietokone.fi/uutta/uutinen.asp?news_id=23995
-- in Finnish, Maemo is written as "Maemoon?" Sounds like we got ourselves a mascot! Hang the Penguin! Bring on the Maemoon!

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
http://www.mobilegazette.com/nokia-770-internet-tablet.htm
>>>The Nokia 770 is billed as an "Internet Tablet" - and in fact, it isn't a phone at all. However, it can be seen as a logical evolution to widescreen devices such as the Nokia 7710 Smartphone.
-- dated May 25th, but still worth a peek

Nokia 770 - linuxová placka na internet
http://mobil.idnes.cz/telefony.asp?r=telefony&c=A050526_012338_telefony_ada
-- has some pics

Introduction to the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/article057/
-- how in the world did I miss this?! The *slides* from the Linux World Expo 770 intro! But how can that be? There's a slide showing AbiWord and Plucker under Maemo! Wow! This is a 23-slide exegesis on the creation of the 770 and also includes all the names of the major open source components they used, plus the reason they chose Opera as the browser. I expect Reggie will plop this on the front page due to its importance!

Nokia is pushing hard into multimedia --

Nokia takes part in mobile TV broadcasts at IAAF World Championships in Athletics
http://www.m2.com/m2/web/story.php/2005F3D550205A25A8CD802570540042C0E9
>>>Finnish telecomms solutions provider Nokia said on Friday (5 August) that mobile TV broadcasts would continue in August at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki.

>>>During the World Championships in Athletics, mobile TV users would also have access to regular YLE TV1, MTV3, Nelonen, CNN, BBC World and Eurosport TV programmes.

>>>The real-time TV programmes would be watched on the Nokia 7710 smartphone equipped with a special accessory to receive mobile TV broadcasts.

Chinese Directors, Nokia Discuss 'Mobile Films'
http://www.china.org.cn/english/2005/Aug/137489.htm
>>>Famous Chinese film director Tian Zhuangzhuang and director-cum-cameraman Gu Changwei discussed the development of "mobile films" with mobile handset giant Nokia on Tuesday afternoon.
-- coming soon, the only-on-cellphone epic, The Re-Education of Chairman Mao!

China, Nokia keen on 'mobile film'
http://us.rediff.com/money/2005/aug/05nokia.htm
>>>The Chinese film industry has started discussing with cellphone major Nokia the possibility of developing 'mobile film', considered the fifth-generation medium.

Hmmmm....5th-gen? We haven't yet had John Rogers' *4th-gen*, as described here --
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/07/4th-generation-media.html

Nokia 3230 smart phone
http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=1730
>>>Finland has a lot to thank Nokia for. If you’re old enough to be able to remember the time before mobile phones became the pocket-sized multimedia life jackets they are today, you’ll remember that Finland only used to be famous for, er… well nothing springs to mind actually.
-- also reprinted here --
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/05/review_nokia_3230/print.html

More on the posh 8800 --

Elegant Nokia 8800
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2005/08/elegant_nokia_8.html
>>>Fashionistas, take note! Nokia will start shipping its Nokia 8800 fashion phone, and it should appear at stores in a few months' time. The US version will be given the model number 8801, and I couldn't be bothered by the nuances in model numbers because it looks droolingly nice!

Nokia design chief stakes reputation on new cellphone design
http://www.dailyherald.com/business/businessstory.asp?id=80349
>>>In the late 1990s, Frank Nuovo was responsible for designing the phones that helped make Nokia Corp. the world’s biggest cellphone company. But in the past few years, with Nuovo as its chief of design, the company has slipped badly, missing some key style trends.
>>>Nuovo says the Nokia 8800 is intended to be a lasting design. “This product, five years from now, 10 years from now, it’s going to look great,” he says.
-- Memo to Frank: We don't *keep* tech that long. Things fall and break. We get tired of them. They lack the newest features. They stop being hep. Wake up. Or it's off to Royal Dutch Shell for you!

InterDigital, Nokia spat intensifies
http://www.telecoms.com/marlin/30000000461/ARTICLEVIEW/mp_articleid/20017307827/mp_pubcode/MTEL?proceed=true&MarEntityId=1123169047435&entHash=102b2b8ae7e
>>>U.S. vendor InterDigital today reported that it has still not received the final award of between US$180-US$220 million it is seeking in a dispute with Finnish vendor Nokia over royalty payment obligations for GSM/TDMA and GSM/GPRS/TDMA patents. The International Chamber of Commerce had set a deadline of May 31 for the issue of a final award, but Nokia has failed to comply and has since filed a volley of eight separate legal actions involving InterDigital and certain 3G patents owned by Nokia.
-- Memo to Nokia: PAY UP! You can appeal and get it back later, *if* you win. Don't Be Like BillG!

Mike Cane

2005-08-05, 20:57

Column: Is It Wrong to Love Microsoft?
http://www.cooltechzone.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1645
>>>Microsoft is perhaps the most hated company in the history of business. Anointed with names such as the Redmond Giant, Microshaft, Microsloth, so on and so forth, the nicknames and jokes are perhaps exceeded only by the vengeance with which people hate it. The question is why do they?
-- now here's a lad Born Yesterday. This column is the equivalent of a Holocaust survivor's offspring asking, "Were the Nazis Really ALL Bad?"

Olive Symphony: a serious contender for the couch throne
http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/html/62/4844.html
>>> It is no secret that the competition for global domination in the operating system market has moved from the desktop to the living room couch. Harvard Business professor Clayton Christensen has famously said that devices will suck lots of the functionality off of the desktop, and all the major players, from Sony to Hewlett-Packard to Microsoft are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in R & D to occupy the coveted space in front of the couch throne. The Olive Symphony, a Linux-powered hi-fi wi-fi stereo hub, stands a decent chance for a prime position before the living room throne.
-- bottom line: it's Nine Hundred Freaking Bucks! But this does bring up the next battleground: The Couch! (Both as a specific location and as a metaphor.)

Debian Alliance on The Horizon
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3525276
>>>The Debian Common Core Alliance (DCCA), a group that brings together nine different Linux distributions under a common banner, is set to be announced at a press conference at LinuxWorld San Francisco next Tuesday, internetnews.com has learned.
-- what's this mean for Maemo? Anything? Time for Reggie to investigate.

You Say You Want a Web Revolution
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,68403,00.html
>>>Software experts say recent innovations in web design are ushering in a new era for internet-based software applications, some of the best of which already rival desktop applications in power and efficiency. That’s giving software developers a wide open platform for creating new programs that have no relation to the underlying operating system that runs a PC.

>>>Perhaps the best known example of AJAX is Google Maps, whose improbable drop shadows and absurdly movable maps spread shock and awe among web developers in February.
-- no, this is not OT. What does the 770 connect to, eh?

-- and for the fellow above whose MS idolatry is thoroughly disgusting, here's another reason to hate Redmond:

>>>Web developers are creating AJAX code libraries and conventions to ease the burden of making applications that speak several computer languages. Even Microsoft is getting into the game, albeit with hooks that aim to keep it tethered to its Windows OS. The company recently announced it is developing its own AJAX toolbox, called Atlas, for web developers who use Microsoft's ASP.NET technologies to build websites.
-- we need something called "Windex" -- WINDows EXecutioner!

FCC Eases High-Speed Internet Rules
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050805/ap_on_go_ot/fcc_broadband
>>>The Federal Communications Commission's 4-0 vote means that phone companies delivering Internet access via digital subscriber lines, or DSL, eventually will no longer have to lease access to their networks to competitors at deep discounts.
-- a headline out of Orwell's IngSoc. Should read: "FCC Sells Out Public By Creating A Second Monopoly." Just wait. They'll come after free WiFi too. It's already begun:

Logan is Trying to Kill Free Wi-Fi
http://boston.metblogs.com/archives/2005/08/logan_is_trying.phtml

More of Nokia's multimedia push --

Nokia Trends presentó “Mobile Life”, el segundo corto para el celular.
>>>Ayer fue lanzada la segunda parte de “Conectados: Mobile Life”, el primer corto para móviles grabado íntegramente con las cámaras de seis celulares Nokia. Se usaron para la filmación los modelos Nokia 7610 y 6682.
-- I don't know Spanish, and babelfish really mangled this. Habla Espanol? Post a translation!

TeleRead: FBReader for Nokia 770
http://shadowdark.org/epublish/2005/08/teleread-fbreader-for-nokia-770.html
>>>This is big. I've been toying with the idea of buying a Nokia 770 around Christmas. But I really want to be able to surf the web AND read ebooks on it.

Mike Cane

2005-08-05, 21:31

Well, three "blog" entries in one day...

We seem to have some activity on the Maemo apps front. At least, my mind doesn't recall seeing these listed before:

Irksu
http://corrie.scp.fi/users/kalle.vahlman/irksu/
>>>Irksu is (or rather will be) a collection of chat-related widgets.
Screenshot: http://corrie.scp.fi/users/kalle.vahlman/irksu/kuvat/maemo-irksu.jpg

GPE: The GPE Palmtop Environment
http://gpe.handhelds.org/
>>>The GPE Palmtop Environment aims to provide a Free Software GUI environment for palmtop/handheld computers running the GNU/Linux™ operating system. GPE uses the X Window System, and the GTK+ widget toolkit.
Screenshots: http://handhelds.org/~philippe/
-- note that is a DIR to screenshots, not a direct URL to one/several.

Maemo and games
http://piipiip.net/~veli/maemo/
>>>Some game related things I compiled for maemo..

>>>I was also able to try Scummvm on the actual device and it seemed to work like a charm!
-- screenshots at above page. My god! He's got a *Commodore 64 emulator* going! Must find EasyScript...

What is ScummVM?
http://scummvm.org/
>>> ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

The Dasher Project
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
>>> Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used - for example, [....] on a palmtop computer;

All of the above sourced from http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ApplicationCatalog

This is an oldie but worth another look:

What is Evince?
http://gnome.org/projects/evince/
>>>Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats like pdf, postscript, and many others. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop, like ggv, gpdf, and xpdf with a single simple application.
Screenshots: http://blogs.gnome.org/view/tko/2005/05/26/1

And here's a dir with a bunch of port-in-progress screensnaps:

http://koltsoff.fi/770/

del.icio.us / tag / nokia+770
http://del.icio.us/tag/nokia+770
-- people actually del'ed this "blog" and my jk writeup. Woo.

FURL, which I use, comes up dry. Perhaps I should put my stuff under a "Nokia 770" category? FURL is still beta and search results from within FURL tend to undergo sudden dead-ends. But I still find FURL easier to use.

Mike Cane

2005-08-05, 22:26

OK, going to "blog" entry four. Over at Planet Maemo, a blog by Tommi Komulainen is sourced. These are very interesting entries:

It's not a phone
http://blogs.gnome.org/view/tko/2005/06/01/2
-- mentions getting Ogg/Vorbis onto the 770

Every day is a bug day
http://blogs.gnome.org/view/tko/2005/06/10/1
-- ouch!

ScummVM on maemo
http://blogs.gnome.org/view/tko/2005/06/12/0

ScummVM on maemo - part II
http://blogs.gnome.org/view/tko/2005/06/12/1

Maemo widgets: date and time
http://blogs.gnome.org/view/tko/2005/06/16/1

Other:

Doom ported to the Nokia 770
http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2344
>>>It's like some kind of hazing ritual for all of these new pda/palm/phone devices. You can find doom for almost any device, if you don't, it means that either it's not possible, or there is no developer community.
-- oooh, I like that! The Doom Test!

When will we stop saying "Thank you sir may I have another?" to the FCC?
http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/002629.html
-- more fallout from the FCC screwing us all today.

Why did Tapwave & Gizmondo fail?
http://gigaom.com/2005/08/05/why-did-tapwave-gizmondo-fail/#more-4837
-- this is worth a quote of its conclusion:

So if you are a consumer electronics start-up (and there are many given the number of VCs scrambling to fund one or more such efforts) you need to avoid the four mistakes made by Gizmondo and Tapwave. Here are four things you can do to make your chances better:

1. Focus on one function and forget about multitasking. Impress customers with your best feature.
2. Ignore the early adopter, and make the device easy enough to pass the “mom test.” Mass market makes companies, A-list geeks don’t.
3. Looks matter - regardless of what people say, like in love, looks matter. People like beautiful and aesthetically pleasing objects. They are willing to pay an extra $200 for a simple hard drive. Steve Jobs knows that.
4. You can’t buy buzz - buzz happens, because people love your products. Simple as that. If you are great, in this over-connected web-enabled world, people will find you. Learn from Slim Devices.

-- I've never heard of Slim Devices -- http://www.slimdevices.com/ -- has anyone?

#1 - This could account for the geek thrashing Nokia has been getting over the 770 -- "WTF? No hard drive?"
#2 - I disagree with to some extent. Influencers account for free sales pitches -- "Man, you gotta see what I just got!!"
#3 - The 770 isn't the prettiest thing in the world, but at least it doesn't have slippery shiny bits that will capture fingerprints.
#4 - Ah, see, he agrees with me after all. But Slim Devices?! Who they?

From the Editor: The Hundred-Dollar Laptop
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/08/issue/editor.0.asp
>>>Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of MIT's Media Lab, showed attendees the screen of the Hundred-Dollar Laptop, or HDL. Beginning in 2006, he said, he would build 100 million to 200 million HDLs every year--and distribute them to the children of the poor world. Many attendees had read about Negroponte's idea and dismissed it as quixotic. Hearing how an HDL might be built, seeing a part of it, and realizing the scale of the project produced a rustle of delighted interest.

>>>Can a $100 computer be built? Maybe. Negroponte does not plan to use three expensive components of conventional laptops: Microsoft Windows, a traditional flat-panel screen, and a hard drive. Instead, the HDL will be loaded with Linux and other open-source software; its display will use either a rear-projection screen or a type of electronic ink invented at the MIT Media Lab; and it will store one gigabyte's worth of files in flash memory.
-- well look, if it's true that everything is going to migrate to The Network, then the 770 is indeed the pre-"HDL," although at $350 right now. It wouldn't make sense to have a battery-sucking HD; solid-state storage is battery-friendly and less prone to dying from an accidental drop. Perhaps the 3rd-gen 770 -- the 990? -- will be the true HDL. If anyone can do it, I think Nokia can.

Mike Cane

2005-08-05, 23:00

FLASH!

Palm to take on the Nokia 770!

Hawkins: Palm Has Secret Third Business
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=7999

QUOTING:

Q: Can you give me a better idea about what this "child" technology is?

A: Not really. I'll give you a couple clues. I always think of mobile computing as personal computing. This long-term vision has led us through everything -- first the organizers and now through the smart phone space. It's like everything a personal computer is. Continue down that path. What are the implications of a world where everyone has a super high-speed Internet connection in their pocket and many gigabytes of storage, super-fast processors, audio, visual and multimedia? What are the consequences of that? How will that change computing when you have all that stuff available to you all the time? I try to think into the future. That's how we come up with new products. So I'm not going to tell you what it is, but it's following the consequences of mobile computing.

=======

DUH! I just wrote about the HDL in my 4th entry today (see above). This was before I saw this. Go see how it ties in. This is a 770 competitor.

The only question is, will it be running creaking Infinite Garnet or Windows Mobile (as the new Treo 670 will be!)?

UPDATE: Silly me, thinking Palm would be even capable of such a reach. As The Register has keenly and perceptively (and calmly!) analyzed this and concluded that it is nothing more than the LifeDrive, I am forced to agree.

Mike Cane

2005-08-06, 14:32

Nokia Board got it wrong with their new senior structure
http://governancefocus.blogspot.com/2005/08/nokia-board-got-it-wrong-with-their.html
>>>The Board of Nokia has come out on both sides of the governance stakes in the recent changes to the Nokia leadership. They did a good thing and a bad thing.

>>>The good thing is that they separated the roles of Chairman and CEO and gave these roles to different people. This is the right thing to do and they should be commended for the move.

>>>The bad thing is that they allowed the former Chairman and CEO to keep the Chairman's position, which is a governance no-no!
-- it's Finland. They do things The Finnish Way.

Comment: 'Nokia effect' sparks new age for media
http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/stories/MYSA080605.2O.santos.211ce479.html
>>> This emerging "Nokia effect" derives its impact from an emerging Wi-Fi ubiquity in the presence of media in society, from surveillance to personal media. Multitasking camera phones can now fit in a palm or a lapel pin. Their images, accompanied by text, can be instantly transmitted anywhere in the world.
-- this is a reg site, but I was able to get into this article w/o regging. YMMV. Interesting that he coins the term "Nokia Effect." Makes me realize no one ever did the same for Palm.

Mike Cane

2005-08-07, 14:29

I don't like this idea *at all*!

Cisco tipped to expand with Nokia takeover
http://thebusinessonline.com/Stories.aspx?StoryID=645F05D4-50A6-43BE-90DE-89F12DE66E9F&SectionID=F3B76EF0-7991-4389-B72E-D07EB5AA1CEE
>>>US networking giant Cisco is considering buying Finnish phonemaker Nokia in the wake of chief executive Jorma Ollila's resignation.

Cisco mulls buying Nokia-paper
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050807/bs_nm/telecoms_cisco_nokia_dc%3B_ylt=A86.I0maGPZCktgAOQL 67rEF%3B_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
>>>LONDON (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc. is considering buying the world's top mobile handset maker Nokia in a bid to gain its wireless infrastructure technology, the Business newspaper reported on Sunday.

>>>The paper, which did not reveal the source of its information, said U.S.-based Cisco had traditionally concentrated on acquisitions of niche technology players, but its Chief Executive John Chambers is believed to be interested in merging with a wireless infrastructure company.

>>>"Nokia has been identified as the most likely target," the paper said.
>>>Cisco, the largest maker of Internet equipment, is worth around $123 billion, while Nokia's market value is around $71 billion.

Paper: Cisco mulls buying Nokia
http://www.mobiletracker.net/archives/2005/08/07/nokia-cisco
>>>According to an article in Sunday Business (not currently online), a UK business weekly, Cisco Systems is considering buying Nokia. Earlier this month, Nokia's CEO announced that he would be retiring next year.

Are Cisco about to buy out Nokia?
http://itvibe.com/news/3669/
>>>Following a report by "Sunday Business" today, rumours are spreading fast that networking giant Cisco have expressed an interesting in buying Finnish based mobile phone manufacturer Nokia.

Memo to Finnish Government: PREVENT THIS!

Mike Cane

2005-08-07, 14:45

Maximum interest, revenues for portable media players below $200
http://nokia770.com/index.php/113/
>>>Note to Nokia - how about pricing the 770 below $200? Parks Associates that’s where the user interest peaks and the big bucks start rolling in.
-- I found and commented on this at teleread:

++My god! The screen alone on the 770 has to Co$t! It’s too early to talk about shredding the price like that. I’m sure Nokia is subsidizing the hell out of it to begin with, at $350.

++And if *Cisco* is allowed to buy Nokia (no!no!no!), we might see the 770 molested in ways we would not care to see.

uusi vapa
http://www.pulvis.net/blog/?p=555
-- I don't know.

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet -poimintoja
http://lehto.net/blogi/2005/08/nokia-770-internet-tablet-poimintoja.htm
-- looks Finnish. Mentions Doom, itT, Marcelo and Mohammad.
Main blog page is here:
http://lehto.net/blogi/
[UPDATE: It turns out I did this one before. I won't delete it. No IgnSoc here!]

Mobile Sports TV
http://www.cellions.com/cell-phones/mobile_sports_tv.html
>>>The Finnish mobile TV pilot has been thoroughly tested with groups and is scheduled to go live at the end of August. How much time do you think an average user will spend time watching Mobile TV? If your estimate is less than five minutes per day, then you are off the mark. Detailed studies have shown users spending as much as thirty minutes a day watching Mobile TV. Of course, the time spent watching Mobile TV will also depend on quality, cost and content.
-- say what?!!?

Mike Cane

2005-08-07, 15:32

Ok, here's the deal with this. The New York Times demands regging to read their content. I disagree with this policy as it really really screws up the very idea of One Holistic and Immane Internet. Therefore, I've cloned the bytes that comprise the article. I won't always be doing this, though. So go reg.

August 7, 2005

When Pigs Wi-Fi
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/opinion/07kristof.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

HERMISTON, Ore.

This is cowboy country, where the rodeo is coming to town, the high school's "kiss the pig" contest involves a genuine hog, and life seems about as high-tech as the local calf-dressing competition, when teams race to wrestle protesting calves into T-shirts.

But Hermiston is actually a global leader of our Internet future. Today, this chunk of arid farm country appears to be the largest Wi-Fi hot spot in the world, with wireless high-speed Internet access available free for some 600 square miles. Most of that is in eastern Oregon, with some just across the border in southern Washington.

Driving along the road here, I used my laptop to get e-mail and download video - and you can do that while cruising at 70 miles per hour, mile after mile after mile, at a transmission speed several times as fast as a T-1 line. (Note: it's preferable to do this with someone else driving.)

This kind of network is the wave of the future, and eastern Oregon shows that it's technically and financially feasible. New York and other leading cities should be embarrassed that Morrow and Umatilla Counties in eastern Oregon are far ahead of them in providing high-speed Internet coverage to residents, schools and law enforcement officers - even though all of Morrow County doesn't even have a single traffic light.

The big cities should take note, said Kim Puzey, the general manager of the Port of Umatilla on the Columbia River here. "We'd like people to say, 'If they can do it out in the boondocks with a small population, that model can be applied to highly complex areas,' " he said.

Mr. Puzey, who says wireless broadband is central to the port's operations, argues persuasively that broadband is just the next step in expanding the national infrastructure, comparable to the transcontinental railroad, the national highway system and rural electrification.

Indeed, we need to envision broadband Internet access as just another utility, like electricity or water. Often the best way to provide that will be to blanket a region with Wi-Fi coverage to create wireless computer networks, rather than running D.S.L., cable or fiber-optic lines to every home.

So if the first step was to get Americans wired, the next step is to make them wireless.

Two pioneers in that process are Portland, Ore., and Philadelphia, which are both moving toward citywide Wi-Fi Internet access. Consumers will still have to pay for broadband, but only about half as much as they do now.

Still, Portland and Philadelphia won't have their systems in place until next year. Meanwhile, the system in eastern Oregon covers a larger geographic area, is free for consumers and has been up and running for more than a year and a half.

One reason it sprang up here is that a nearby Army depot contains chemical weapons, so there is special concern about what would happen if a cloud of nerve gas escaped from the depot. That fear helped provide a pot of federal money to underwrite safety systems.

Usually, the police and fire agencies communicate just by radio, but Hermiston decided to go with a public-private partnership that established a Wi-Fi network. The police chief, Dan Coulombe, showed me the wireless computers that all police officers now carry. They can download data and receive images from video monitors - and, if nerve gas ever escaped, display the cloud's direction and speed.

Fingerprint readers are now being added to these portable devices so a police officer can almost instantly run a person's fingerprint through a multistate database. And if there's a report of a burglary, the police rushing to the scene can download floor plans of the building, live images from video monitors and information about the alarm system.

The wizard behind the system is Fred Ziari, an Iranian immigrant and Wi-Fi pioneer who runs a high-tech company in Hermiston and Portland, EZ Wireless. Mr. Ziari contracted with the local authorities to provide the Wi-Fi service, which lets consumers piggyback for nothing.

Hermiston is already starting to introduce WiMax, the next generation of technology after Wi-Fi, offering much higher speeds and greater range.

Other American towns need to follow Hermiston, not necessarily in holding "kiss the pig" contests, but in ensuring broadband Internet access as reliably as they do water or electricity. The fact is, unless you're a cowboy here in eastern Oregon, you're behind the times.

Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company

Mike Cane

2005-08-07, 19:55

So, did you reg at the NY Times site?

You'll have to now, if you want to read this complete link!

The Xbox Auteurs
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/magazine/07MACHINI.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print
>>>Thrilled, Burns and his crew quickly cranked out another video, then another. They kept up a weekly production schedule, and after a few months, ''Red vs. Blue'' had, like some dystopian version of ''Friends,'' become a piece of appointment viewing. Nearly a million people were downloading each episode every Friday, writing mash notes to the creators and asking if they could buy a DVD of the collected episodes. Mainstream media picked up on the phenomenon. The Village Voice described it as '' 'Clerks' meets 'Star Wars,' '' and the BBC called it ''riotously funny'' and said it was ''reminiscent of the anarchic energy of 'South Park.' '' Burns realized something strange was going on. He and his crew had created a hit comedy show -- entirely inside a video game.

-- a primer on "Machinima" -- a bizarre remixing of videogames to narrative stories! Did you catch those key words? -- "Nearly a million people were downloading each episode every Friday..." And Nokia is trying to find The Holy Grail of cellphone multimedia? Someone wake them up and point them to this article!

I'm going to start experimenting with formatting to make things somewhat easier to read. Let me know if this post works for you.

Mike Cane

2005-08-07, 20:16

Nokia + Cisco? Nokia says no.
http://www.symplification.com/node/213
>>>However, even more recently the Finnish News Agency STT has reported that Nokia's Director of Communications Arja Suominen says there is no basis for the paper's story.
-- made him do his job on the weekend, did they? Must have been a bunch of conference calls going on over there in Nokialand.

Sunday Morning Laugh: Cisco mulls buying Nokia
http://davenetics.com/newsmonger/2005/08/07/sunday-morning-laugh-cisco-mulls-buying-nokia/
>>>Why? Why? Why? would Nokia sell-out?

Breakthrough!!
http://consultantmusings.blogspot.com/2005/08/breakthrough.html
>>>The origin of Nokia's modular structure can be traced back to the software technology heritage the firm began to develop in the 1980s. At that time, Nokia's software technology was built from two core elements: the software mantra of reusability, and standardization through the creation of a shared common platform.
-- some good words here.

Nokia N90 Reviewed
http://www.gadgetspy.co.uk/2005/08/07/nokia-n90-reviewed
>>>It’s now available, a new Nokia handset with too many features! The best display on the market, Symbian OS, multimedia playback, 2 megapixel camera, memory card slot, voice recognition, Bluetooth EDGE, and 3G network support. Do you want it? Do you?
-- er, no. I hope others will, though.

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
http://www.simpleenigma.com/blogs/2005-06-02/22/
>>>Nokia is coming out with a product that I have been wanting for quite a while now. A small handheld device that is WiFi compatible, has a small form factor and decent battery life that is designed for Internet Access.
-- dated 6/2! Hmmm...

FBReader for Maemo
http://only.mawhrin.net/~mss/thingies/maemo/
-- new screenshots! And you can rotate the screen for portrait reading!

Doom ported to the iPod
http://gaming.engadget.com/entry/1234000393053469/
>>>It’s a little sluggish on the framerate side, and definitely clumsy on the input end of things, but you bet yer sweet potatoes the iPod Linux guys got Doom ported to the little white MP3 player that could. Sure, it’s not quite Doom on the Nokia 770, but you take what you can get.
-- so already people are having 770 Envy?

Mike Cane

2005-08-08, 13:08

Nokia official dismisses report of Cisco interest
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-08-08T153833Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-211956-1.xml
>>> HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Nokia spokeswoman said on Monday a weekend newspaper report that Cisco Systems Inc was considering making a bid for the top mobile phone maker seemed to be "pure fabrication".

>>>Nokia's policy remains not to comment on rumours, the spokeswoman said, but added that an article in the Business, a London-based newspaper, seemed to be "pure fabrication based on rumours on the Internet".

>>>Nokia shares were up 1.78 percent at 13.15 euros by 0949 GMT, having earlier been up as much as 3.3 percent.

-- Nokia, you should know better than to insult the Vast And Living Internet System!

Nokia declines comment on report has dismissed Cisco bid noise as 'fabrication'
http://www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=afxnews&articleid=5373836&subject=companies&action=article
>>>HELSINKI (AFX) - Nokia Corp declined to comment on newspaper speculation that it could be a bid target for Cisco Systems Inc, or on a newswire report that the Finnish handset giant had dismissed the print article as "pure fabrication".

>>>"We are not willing to comment on the story at all. If there is anything we want to say, we will put out a statement," a spokeswoman said.
-- someone's not in a good mood...

Nokia Sees Shortages Of N90 Phone Due To Strong Demand
http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt_top.jsp?cat=TOPBIZ&src=704&feed=dji&section=news&news_id=dji-00016720050808&date=20050808&alias=/alias/money/cm/nw
>>> STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Nokia Corp. (NOK) (NOK) is seeing shortages of its much- hyped N90 camera phone due to strong initial demand, a spokesman told Dow Jones Newswires Monday.
-- well, that didn't take long.

Nokia and Ollila's legacy
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/08/nokia_ollila_legacy/print.html
>>>Nokia CEO Jorma Ollila, the architect of the Finnish giant in its current form, is to step down next June, although he will remain as non-executive chairman. Although widely rumored to be after a career in Finnish politics, he has announced that he will take over the chairmanship of oil giant Shell instead.
-- tch! Not one mention of the 770 in all this!

PSP
http://schwuk.com/entries/141/psp
>>>Sony have promised to block some of the exploits being used to achieve these hacks with the european release [of the PSP], so I’m waiting to see how successful they are before handing over my money. Especially with the presumably hacker friendly (given it’s origins) “Nokia 770” hopefully available soon at a similar price point.
--now there's a smart lad.

Doom на Nokia 770
http://svyatogor.gnns.net/archives/13
--Russia likes Doom too.

Mach schneller, Nokia
http://www.cordless-club.com/blog/archives/2005/08/mach_schneller.html
--the usual stuff.

GPE-Calendar on Maemo
http://www.postneo.com/2005/08/08/gpe-calendar-on-maemo
>>>Matthias has made progress on a GPE-Calendar port to the Maemo platform. Porting GPE-Calendar is a lot harder than a lot of ./configure; make; make-install “ports” to Maemo, and it looks like it is coming along nicely. The Nokia 770 is still officially not a PDA mind you, but the more solid apps available for the platform on launch day the better.

maemo.org
http://exodusmachine.com/?p=11
>>>This is a very good reason to get the Nokia 770.
--sourced from http://www.nokia770.com

Nokia Launches Mobile Search Application To Smartphones
http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt_top.jsp?cat=TOPBIZ&src=704&feed=dji&section=news&news_id=dji-00025920050808&date=20050808&alias=/alias/money/cm/nw
>>> STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Finnish telecommunications equipment maker Nokia Corp. (NOK)(NOK) Monday said it has introduced a new mobile search application, search on the go, to its smartphones.

>>> The current service and content providers incorporated in the search application include Eniro, Fonecta, Medio Systems, Yahoo!, Yell.com, as well as digital map solution provider AtlasCT and digital map data provider NAVTEQ.

>>>The mobile search application is currently being piloted in the U.K., Finland and Sweden.

>>>The application will be distributed in the standard sales packs of the Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681 and Nokia 6630 smartphones.

Mike Cane

2005-08-08, 13:52

A Serious Contender for the Couch Throne
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/07/2327236&from=rss
-- followup to a prior entry; the /.ers rip into that $900 "hub."

Cisco Going Mobile, Acquiring Nokia?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/07/2040222&from=rss
-- the /.ers rip into the very idea of it taking place.

OSDL's Weinberg: Open source is a 'velvet' revolution
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1112997,00.html
>>>There may not be fireworks. CIOs and IT directors may not be heaping their proprietary software on bonfires and dancing. Even so, the open source revolution is happening right now and will carry the day, said Bill Weinberg, open source architecture specialist and Linux evangelist for Open Source Development Labs (OSDL).

Kept Alive by Open Source
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/print.php/3525671
>>>Beloved old technologies don't die. They go open source. For some reason the open source model has enabled dead and dying technologies to stay alive long after commercial interests left them to rot.
--this is great reading. When it comes to digital stuff, I think Copyright law should provide for abandoned IP to get into the public domain ASAP.

Razer Copperhead
http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-21730-2416-x-x-x
>>>The Razer Copperhead gaming mouse has a 2000dpi laser sensor, 32KB of memory, and an adjustable weight system.
-- I bring this up because it prompted a Q in my head. It turns out that Pocket PC can use a BT-enabled mouse. You wind up with a frikkin pointer you can use! I've been wondering if the 770 could similarly use a mouse. That'd be killer: BT keyboard *and* BT mouse.

edited to add:

Wireless wilderness: Internet access gains favor among campers
http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2005/0,4814,103730,00.html
>>> Camping essentials used to include Coleman lanterns, goose-down sleeping bags and water purification kits. But a growing number of campers are adding laptops to that list, and wireless Internet access in the great outdoors is becoming the new must-have.
--another niche market for the 770 to exploit!

AOL making wireless move
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-08-08-aol-wildseed_x.htm
>>>NEW YORK — America Online will announce today that it's accelerating its move into cell phone services through the acquisition of a software company, Wildseed, which will be part of a new unit called the AOL Wireless Group.

>>>"We believe that wireless is one of the biggest places for AOL to play in," says AOL Wireless General Manager Craig Eisler. The deal with privately held Wildseed "enables us to offer new products like instant messaging for phones, and great photo and music experiences for phones."

-- interesting. AOL is the Disneyland of the internet. The place where people who can't think for themselves go.

More here:
Can AOL Take Over The Mobile Experience?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20050808/0137253_F.shtml

-- edited again to add --

Nokia first to adopt FEC technology for 3G delivery
http://www.the3gportal.com/3gpnews/archives/007479.html
>>>It was reported by Digital Fountain that Nokia will be the first licensee of its FEC (forward error correction) technology, DF Raptor, which the 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) recently adopted as an official global standard for the reliable delivery of multimedia to handheld devices.

Nokia and Intel work together on WiMAX Broadband Wireless Technology
http://www.the3gportal.com/3gpnews/archives/007429.html
-- this is an old one (6/12) that I missed.

I think from now on I will only create a new thread entry when I have more than 3 items to plunk down at one time.

-- edited again to add --

If Cisco buys Nokia, will it be sorry? Only if Cisco is dumb enough to do it...
http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/2364
>>>Rumours of Cisco "eyeing" Nokia with a view to a takeover have been published in a Sunday Business report, and widely discussed. It is, almost certainly, not true, say sources - including some inside both companies.

Motorola N. America Sales Strong As Nokia Struggles
http://www.forbes.com/2005/08/08/motorola-nokia-wireless-0808markets17_print.html

Mike Cane

2005-08-08, 23:22

If you've popped in to read this because you saw it was updated on the front page, check out the prior post too. That's been added to twice more today.

Stuff only very vaguely related to the 770...

Linux Feels Growing Pains As Users Demand More Features
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB112345521064207079-eZ3k7unjC1DF3ZhBfnXuo5xDvws_20050907,00.html?mod=b logs
>>>A program called Linux sparked radical changes in the way software is developed, and poses problems for mighty Microsoft Corp. But backers of such "open source" software now face new challenges, like pleasing Joseph Drouin.

And the /. take on this:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/08/1444230&from=rss

China Co. Debuts TV Show for Small Screen
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050808/ap_on_en_tv/ap_on_tv_mobile_phone_tv&printer=1;_ylt=As.xSAj0d0t8BRF4BhZV98auGL8C;_ylu=X 3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-
>>>It's a super-modern love story made for the small screen — the very small screen.

>>>Two motorcycle racers vie for the same woman in "Appointment," a romance squeezed into five-minute episodes made to be shown on mobile phone screens half the size of a credit card.

Microsoft Linux Lab Manager Responds
http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/05/08/08/1247220.shtml?tid=109&tid=11&tid=106
-- /.ers grill MS guy.

Google to Buy Meetroduction
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3525986
>>>Chicago-based Meetroduction launched the first version of Meetro, "location-aware social networking software," on Aug. 4. The idea of Meetro is to find people to hang out with in the physical world.
-- I wonder how these "location-aware services" will work with the 770? And if they will drive 770 desire and sales?

-- edited to add --

Nokia to sell device running RIM software
http://rcrnews.com/news.cms?newsId=23688
>>>Nokia said it will sell its 9300 smart phone this fall in the United States. The device will ship with RIM's BlackBerry software, allowing users to access their corporate e-mail through BlackBerry servers.
-- Nokia doing Blackberries and Palm doing 770s. The world is going crazy...

-- edited again to add --

MEX: Why is AOL buying Wildseed?
http://www.pmn.co.uk/20050808aol.shtml
>>>However, in developing this solution, Wildseed also created a full Linux OS optimised for mobile handsets and sophisticated handset customisation platform. It is these key assets which AOL is interested in. Armed with this technology, its own extensive media libraries, the AOL mobile instant messaging franchise and Tegic’s existing customer base in the mobile industry, AOL has all the elements of a rich mobile user experience.
--so PalmSource has yet another competitor!

-- edited again to add --

This was just too good to leave until tomorrow...

Freedom Input Bluetooth Keyboard
http://www.gadgetmadness.com/archives/20050804-freedom_input_bluetooth_keyboard.php
>>>This is the sweetest Bluetooth keyboard we've come across - not only is it tiny like a credit card but there are drivers for just about every device you could imagine. Drivers, you say? There is even a dedicated website for your mobile device so you can download drivers from anywhere, witout a PC!
-- yet another BT KB possibility? Home page of source does not show it --
http://www.freedominput.com/
-- and the drivers page is here:
http://frekey.com/

Mike Cane

2005-08-09, 14:24

It is so far a dull news day...

Noticias -- Nokia Linux --
http://milinuxhugo.blogspot.com/2005/08/noticias-nokia-linux.html
-- the usual overview specs of the 770; in Spanish.

The rest is non-770 stuff...

Nokia Sale: The Latest Summer Fiction
http://www.thestreet.com/_tsclsii/comment/terokuittinen/10237129.html

Will Cisco buy Nokia? And, what does that mean to us?
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7555

Search engine for your Nokia smart mobile - but no Google?
http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/2365

Is a $20 cell phone on the horizon?
http://news.com.com/Is+a+20+cell+phone+on+the+horizon/2100-1039_3-5823239.html
-- yeah, with a *$100/month* bill! Sourced from /.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/08/208226&from=rss

ThinkFree to Debut Office Suite for Linux
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3526076
>>>The original ThinkFree application suite was released five years ago. Today, the company announced its latest version 3 in a Linux (define) edition. In addition to a price of $49.95, ThinkFree is laying claim to having the best compatibility with Microsoft Office of any program to date for Linux, Windows and Macintosh users with an interface similar to Microsoft's. The software also imports and exports Microsoft Office files.

In Pursuit of Good Desktop Linux
http://mozillaquest.com/Linux05/Desktop_Linux_Pursuit_01_Story01.html
--yick! What a horrible page layout! It's not a design; it's a mess!

Mike Cane

2005-08-09, 16:05

I don't know.... I'm beginning to think I should do *second* blog. One perhaps called "Of Interest To 770 Owners." This one would congregate all the stuff that is *not* directly about the 770 itself. Maybe Reggie will do a poll. It's not really more work for me. Just posting stuff in a *different* thread.

Anyway, 99% of the below falls into the "Of Interest To..." category...

Local.com New Local Search Engine Launches
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2024
>>>Keyword DNA utilizes business characteristics such as location, service area, and business-specific keywords among other data to create a unique meta-profile for over 16 million U.S. local businesses. Interchange’s local-web index delivers relevant web listings for specific geographic areas. Some search results and core data info is also supplied by Acxiom Data Services while local targeted paid search advertising is handled via ePilot (this is probably going to be one of ePilot’s largest distribution channels as ePilot is also owned by Interchange).
-- one of the things I *hate* doing on the Net is searching for *local* stuff. Perhaps this will alleviate/fix that chore? This might also be useful for travelers with the 770, looking for local stuff in their guest city.

Broadspot Worldwide Wireless acquires Washington-based Internet access provider
http://www.m2.com/m2/web/story.php/20056CF0353F62E05DA7802570580048DE9B
-- one more step towards Nokia's vision of the Internet being wireless and mobile. I expect wireless announcements to become a daily blizzard once the 770 is released. This might be the Second Coming of the Internet. Now, if I can just get my hands on some capital to invest. It'd make up for my missing the First Coming -- and amazon at that hilariously-high stock price...

French WiMax licences to be awarded in 2006
http://www.m2.com/m2/web/story.php/200519D6A0941F2C12FF8025705800428BBA
--I didn't know WiMax required licensing anywhere. I thought it was enhanced WiFi. Perhaps someone will do an article for this site? Hello, Reggie!

Google News offers RSS Feeds
http://toprank.blogspot.com/2005/08/google-news-offers-rss-feeds.html
-- also more info at --
http://news.google.com/intl/en_us/news_feed_terms.html
-- the 770 has an RSS Newsreader built in.

Wireless LANs Dominate In Homes; Equipment Revenues To Surge
http://www.techweb.com/wire/mobile/168400010
>>>Local-area networks (LANs) in the home market are now dominated by wireless technologies, which have passed the timeworn Ethernet solution, according to a report on home networking released Tuesday by market research firm In-Stat.
-- ah, I didn't think that *infrastructure* could be a good stock buy during the Second Coming of the Internet! Beware the huge flyleaf ad on this page!

Gizmodo’s Official “It Plays Doom Certification” Announced
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/gizmodos-official-it-plays-doom-certification-announced-116455.php
>>>Reader Joo has created the first official “It Plays Doom” certification icon for manufacturers of hair dryers, portable vibrators, and MP3 players. We would suggest that OEMs and even resellers begin certifying their products using this new logo and we will expect a certification fee—work out the specifics with Joo—for every device that sports this logo. Click on the image to view a larger version.
-- right, who will be first to print that out and paste it to the back of their 770?

Protect Yourself Against Wi-Fi Bandwidth Vampires
http://nwc.networkingpipeline.com/shared/article/printablePipelineArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=TUHEBCI1 BALCQQSNDBGCKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleId=168200045
>>>They come by night -- and, for that matter, by day -- furtively sucking the lifeblood from unprotected Wi-Fi networks wherever they find them. They're wireless bandwidth vampires.
-- and we'll be using 770s, too!

A non-no to google Google
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2005/08/09/a_nono_to_google_google.html
-- Google touts its "Do No Evil" philosophy. Here I see it is practicing its "Let's Just BE Evil" hidden philosophy. Gee, Google will now ban me too? Oh, the tears I am shedding!

-- more on this here --
Google: An Apology
http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020505,39212555,00.htm

Technorati 100: Inside And Outside The List
http://www.corante.com/getreal/archives/2005/08/09/technorati_100_inside_and_outside_the_list.php
>>>In a recent post, Jason Calacanis on The Blog 500, I suggested that Jason Calacanis was off base when he said that the Technorati 100 are selected -- unlike the rest of the index -- "based on the number of links for all time." Jason also asserts that the T 100 don't change over time.
-- have any of you tried to *read* that Top 100? Most of it is just bloody boring tripe! Really, I'd rather watch TV! I'd sooner sit and watch Fox News!

Yell, Nokia In Mobile Phone Content Deal
http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt_top.jsp?cat=TOPBIZ&src=704&feed=dji&section=news&news_id=dji-00039220050809&date=20050809&alias=/alias/money/cm/nw
>>>Yell and Nokia Tuesday announced a collaboration which will see Yell.com as the U.K. local search engine in Nokia's new mobile search application.
-- right. Here's the new ad tagline one of you Big Fat Companies can pay me royalties for creating right here right now: Act Global. Search Local. PM me for the royalty address...

--edited to add--

What is RadioTime?
http://www.radiotime.com/
>>>RadioTime makes it easy to find better radio and listen when you like. The service includes a free web-based personalized guide to radio programs with desktop software to listen live, or later from MP3 files. Think of "TiVo for Radio". It's like having a personalized podcast from most any radio program.
-- ah, now this sounds (no pun intended!) like just the thing for the 770's streaming radio capability! The 770: A Radio TiVo in Your Hand!

Mike Cane

2005-08-09, 16:55

More for the "Of Interest" category...

Concurrent and GoldPocket Announce Integrated Applications for On-Demand
http://www.ecmag.net/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=8341
>>>GoldPocket's advanced media solutions, combined with Concurrent's MediaHawk IMS, is designed to enable two-way interactivity with on-demand programming content, allowing consumers to customize their television viewing experience. GoldPocket technology enables users viewing on-demand programs to "telescope" to advertising, commerce capabilities, or other specialized content via "hotspots," or visual cues that are layered on top of the content. GoldPocket's StoryTeller, an interactive authoring product, allows providers to customize on-demand interfaces to reflect their content, creating these hotspots that highlight content specifically tailored to a viewer's preferences. The latest addition to Concurrent's on-demand platform, the MediaHawk Interactive Media Solution (IMS), helps service providers offer targeted promotions and advertising, taking the on-demand navigation process to an interactive level. Concurrent's MediaHawk IMS, with its in-band streaming technology, provides a solid foundation to support the interactive applications available from GoldPocket Interactive.

-- a bit of history is in order here. During the glorious First Coming of the Internet, GoldPocket ran a live, real-time trivia game with a million-dollar prize, called Live Trivia. (Ah, those were the days!) Came the Crucifixion of the Internet, they retreated to providing what they called LiveMatrix, a software/procedure for delivering live, real-time events. (Alas, without that million-dollar incentive for being there!) I wrote about the convergence of televised events and wireless devices here --

Palm Computing and the Promise of Real Convergence
http://www.palminfocenter.com/print.asp?ID=818

-- perhaps with the Second Coming of the Internet -- with the 770 thrown in and millions of people sitting in front of their TVs with it -- we'll see this finally come to pass. I hope I win the million then!

Debian Debuts in China
http://asia.internet.com/news/article.php/3526221
>>>Beijing, China-based Sun Wah Linux officially announced its enterprise Debian Linux offering today at LinuxWorld San Francisco.

>>>The launch of Sun Wah's enterprise Debian offering comes as the Debian Common Core Alliance (DCCA) officially launches at LinuxWorld and vendors, including Novell, Red Hat, Turbolinux and Red Flag Linux, all vie for the lucrative top spot in the world's fastest-growing economy.

Have WiFi adapter, will map
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=wifi&itemNo=607674
>>>Even today, after devoting an entire month of his life to researching the subject, as well as several more weeks to analyzing the resulting data and then organizing it on a multicolored map that rivals any in a military situation room, Ofir Gal-Mor, 32, of Ramat Hasharon, still has no explanation for the mapping bug that infected him one day in March.
-- give this a read!

The above was sourced from Michael Gartenberg's blog, which also provides this --
The Battle for Power (outlets)
http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/gartenberg/archives/009728.html

Nokia: Going Cheap!
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1845817,00.asp
>>> I thought the report about Cisco taking over Nokia was hilarious.
-- well, it scared me!

Future of the Rich Internet Application
http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t21372.html
>>> Datamonitor published a recent article titled "The Saga of the Rich Internet Client". Most people call this RIA, for Rich Internet Application, so I'm going to stick with that name here.
-- this stuff will have to run on cellphones, the 770, and the like. Are these people thinking about that? Anyway, given that this site touts Java, it's another reminder that the 770 shipping without Java is a mistake.

Appeal could delay new fast Finnish mobile network
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-08-09T174648Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-212086-1.xml
>>>HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's new mobile broadband network, expected to be the first of its kind, could be delayed by up to a year due to appeals by rivals proposing alternative technology, a Finnish court official said on Tuesday.

>>>The technology, developed by unlisted U.S. firm Flarion, has been used for fast Internet access on computers and is now getting out of the test phase.

Why the Internet is wonderful (pt 479)
http://blog.org/archives/001298.html
>>>As Salon pointed out to me, the wonderful folks at the Internet Archive have 150 tracks of Caruso singing – part 1 and part 2 – turned from 78s into MP3s. Download what you like before some idiot lengthens the term of copyright even more and it goes out of the public domain again…

>>>And along similar lines, I was encouraged to learn that the BBC’s recent experiment with free Beethoven downloads garnered millions of downloads – many more than any commercial single sales.
-- related note: visit http://www.teleread.org/blog daily for your minimum daily dose of the DRM/Copyright battles.

Mike Cane

2005-08-09, 20:13

More "Of Interest"...

Oracle looking to Linux
http://news.com.com/2102-7344_3-5825433.html?tag=st.util.print
>>>Within the next five years, half of Oracle's customers may be running Linux, President Charles Phillips has predicted.
--more here--
Oracle's Charles Phillips: On demand is the future
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1701
-- lets not forget that business users will want to access their Oracle DBs *wirelessly* as well as *inexpensively*. This is where the 770 fits in. I don't think it will be difficult for Oracle or even their clients to devise a 770 client to access corporate Oracle DBs. The more companies that adopt the 770, the higher its visibility. The more that are out there, the more economies of scale kick in and we can get lowered prices -- and if not lowered prices, at least an *affordable* price for *in-store* sales.

Stealing your neighbor's Net
http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/08/technology/personaltech/internet_piracy/index.htm?cnn=yes
>>>The spread of wireless is opening lots of opportunity to log on for free, but experts urge caution.

Business Objects Offers Apps For Linux
http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml;jsessionid=EUTWAZ4U3JO0YQSNDBC CKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleId=168600116&printableArticle=true
>>> Business Objects aims to address one of the biggest issues facing Linux: A dearth of applications that run on the open-source operating system.

LinuxWorld news
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/linuxworld.html
-- the Expo was held in San Francisco. Nokia did not attend.

Envisioning RSS as a Web 2.0 platform
http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/wlg/7562
>>>RSS began its life as a really simple way for content providers to syndicate their content and for content consumers to subscribe to their favorite providers. When the blogosphere emerged, RSS really took off. Now, just as its “simple” technology cousin, HTML, provided the underpinnings of the Web 1.0 technology platform, RSS is emerging as a platform for delivering the broadband and mobile ready applications of a Web 2.0 enabled world.
-- I think it is entirely possible that the 770 will reshape the Internet. It's the first easily-totable and inexpensive device with a *good* screen. Blogs came about because someone thought it would be a good idea for people to have easier publishing tools. How will devs be inspired by the 770?

Mike Cane

2005-08-09, 22:43

More "Of Interest"...

What Business Can Learn from Open Source
http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html
>>>Like open source, blogging is something people do themselves, for free, because they enjoy it. Like open source hackers, bloggers compete with people working for money, and often win. The method of ensuring quality is also the same: Darwinian. Companies ensure quality through rules to prevent employees from screwing up. But you don't need that when the audience can communicate with one another. People just produce whatever they want; the good stuff spreads, and the bad gets ignored. And in both cases, feedback from the audience improves the best work.
--this was sourced from the following link, whose promo of an excerpt really got on my tits for being so fekkin stupid! So of course I just had to leave a nasty comment to the clueless. It'll probably be gone by the time you go look (if you do) --
http://www.corante.com/futuretense/archives/2005/08/06/paul_graham_on_the_deeper_business_lessons_of_open _source.php
-- and because they thought *that* excerpt was so revelatory, it's clear business will learn *nothing* from open source. (Well, I hope Nokia will. They are now the Great Open Source Hope.)

Amp'd calls up $60M
http://www.thedeal.com/NASApp/cs/CS?pagename=NYT&c=TDDArticle&cid=1123524351540
>>>Armed with $60 million in first round venture funding, Amp'd Mobile is gearing up to battle the giants of the wireless world with the planned launch of its broadband mobile phone services targeting 18-to-35-year-olds.
-- MVNO, another acronym to give me a headache. OK, kids, which would you rather do? Squint at a wee cellphone screen while your per-month minutes go drip-drip-drip down the drain, or be at a free public WiFi hotspot viewing stuff on a 770's big screen? It seems to me that at some point A Corporate Pinstriper will wake up to the fact that cellcos and free public hotspots cannot peacefully co-exist. Then will either come the Night of the Long Knives for Free WiFi or the collapse and death of the Hold-'em-Hostage-and-Bleed-Them Typical Corporate Cellco. Keep being smug, Cellco, Inc. Back in the 1980s, there was this very popular online service called CompuServe. They actually thought they were delivering *value* at a connect-time rate of $3.00 *per hour* (actually, it might have been $3.50, if not even $4) -- until the Internet showed up with ISPs charging a flat unlimited-use monthly fee. Where is the Almighty CompuServe today? Eh? You guys are the next dinosaur to be ground down.

The Second Coming of the Internet
Here are a three links that are debating just what the Second Coming will be like. I don't expect it to be anything like what these guys are going on about. BitTorrent, for example, came out of nowhere -- from the head of *one guy* -- and changed everything.

http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/archives/000298.html
http://www.itgarage.com/node/641
http://benbarren.blogspot.com/2005/07/today-vs-yesterdays-web.html

Talking with Steve
http://archive.scripting.com/2005/08/09#talkingWithSteve
-- Dave Winer goes on about the value of local searching, the sort of stuff I wondered about the 770 affecting in a prior post.

Go Refigure
http://doc.weblogs.com/2005/08/09#goRefigure
>>>Already it's 2005, and all the hotels (like all the airlines and rental car agencies) still sit out there in their silos, with their stupid, deaf, blind CRM systems, trying to trap and hold (or, in slaveholder parlance, own) customers — about whom their systems know as little as possible — inside. Rather than engage in a truly free (and therefore open) marketplace.
-- it's about Captive WiFi. I love this rant!

Rasiej Plan to Wi-Fi NY
http://www.advocatesforrasiej.com/2005/06/21/wi-fi-ny-intro/?pagename=wifi&page=
>>>It’s time to bring New York City into the 21st century.

>>>One big step in that direction will be to bring affordable, universal wireless (”Wi-Fi”) to all New Yorkers.
-- holy cow! If you live in New York City, go read this link!

Calling All Luddites
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/opinion/03friedman.html?ex=1280721600&en=18d4a862134f2aae&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
>>>I've been thinking of running for high office on a one-issue platform: I promise, if elected, that within four years America will have cellphone service as good as Ghana's.
-- this is the NY Times site. I hope you've regged! I did warn you earlier.

Why Murdoch Really Bought MySpace?
http://gigaom.com/2005/08/06/why-murdoch-bought-myspace/
>>>Much like Viacom’s CBS decided to use the broadband web to bypass cable and compete against the 24-hour news networks like CNN and FoxNews (see PaidContent’s coverage here), the acquisition of MySpace positions Murdoch to challenge the dominance of MTV in their category. I’m willing to bet that he will go even further by eventually extending the MySpace brand to include a dedicated cable & satellite network/channel. He is after all an old media guy. In fact, just a couple of weeks before News Corp. announced the deal, we all witnessed the web’s potential in this context when AOL’s webcasting audience for Live 8 outreached MTV and ABC’s ratings of the same event (details here.) Such a data point can go a long way towards justifying a $580 million price tag.
-- so, will MySpace get wise and start partnering with Nokia to offer the 770 to its users? (Not that I want to help Murdoch make money; I detest him! 770 advocacy makes strange bedfellows...)

YouTube
http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=137
-- flickr for video!

Ten Things That Will Be Free
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003067.shtml
>>>I started to name the list "Ten Things That Must Be Free" - but this sounded to me too much like an empty political demand. And the point is: this is not a dream list of things which I hope through some magic to become free, but a list of things which I believe are solvable in reality, things that will be free. Anyone whose business model for the next 100 years depends on these things remaining proprietary better watch out: free culture is coming to get you.

-- edited to add --

AOL Rising
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008565.html
>>>Maybe its because I now work at an Internet Portal and thus am more aware of these things, but it seems that AOL is making all the right moves lately to become a serious competitor to MSN and Yahoo! Let's tick off the things they've done over the past month or so:
-- a good list that shows AOL is really making moves. I wasn't aware of any of this. However, AOL is the CompuServe of today... can they avoid its fate?

-- edited again to add --

What Education Can Learn From Open Source
http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/356
>>>Paul Graham recently offered the interesting essay, “What Business Can Learn From Open Source“. It’s a worthwhile read, and our educational institutions could easily adapt some of idea from the essay. I have taken the liberty of adapting this essay focused on business to suit the educational environment.
-- inspired by what I linked to first in this entry. OK, you guys get one crack at a sequel and this was it. I'm not posting an endless list of "What X Can Learn from Open Source."

-- edited again to add a special link for Jorma --

Life After the Oil Crash
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/SecondPage.html

-- edited again to add --

What the Dormouse Said: An Interview with John Markoff
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i29_markoff.html
>>>I think that in large part many of the values that emerged in the '60s have very much stayed with the computer industry and, in fact, with those responsible for all digital media. I'm thinking particularly of the Open Source movement, which first emerged in the '60s and '70s but didn't really have a huge impact until the mid '90s, and is now very much playing a dramatic role in guiding the direction of technology today.
-- bloody excellent interview, and I must read this book!

-- edited again to add --

Cisco finally comments on those rumors...
Cisco CEO on Nokia: Don’t confuse partnerships with M&A
http://telephonyonline.com/finance/news/nokia_cisco_partnerships_080905/
>>>“I was surprised by the credibility the market gave to recent rumors,” Chambers said during the company’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call Tuesday afternoon, insisting that Cisco’s long-held acquisition strategy has not changed. The company prefers to acquire small, young companies with interesting technologies that share a similar corporate culture and geographic proximity with Cisco. As many analysts pointed out, that strategy is entirely inconsistent with the idea of acquiring a large, foreign vendor like Nokia.

Mike Cane

2005-08-10, 12:41

Browser Options for the Nokia 770
http://www.postneo.com/2005/08/09/browser-options-for-the-nokia-770
>>>It looks like users will have several browser options to choose from when the Nokia 770 drops.

¿La punta del Iceberg?
http://outdabox.blogspot.com/2005/05/la-punta-del-iceberg.html
>>>Nokia va a comercializar a partir del ultimo trimestre del presente año un PDA-Tablet basado en Debian Linux. El nuevo Nokia 770, que no dispone de funcionalidad como teléfono móvil se presenta como una gran alternativa utilizando Software Libre a las actuales PDAs, pero con características más propias de un laptop.

Nokia permite el uso de sus patentes a Linux
http://www.error500.net/nokia_patentes_linux
>>>Además de la salida del Nokia 770 Internet Tablet basado en Linux Debian, la compañía telefónica finlandesa ha dado un paso más allá de utilizar Linux, y es el permitir el uso de sus patentes al kernel de Linux.

WiMax Guide
http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=65366&WT.svl=reports1_3
-- good FAQ, but I don't want to dance with them:
http://img.lightreading.com/images/unstrung/dancing_2.jpg

-- edited to add --

Violating my own rule. More than 3 things here, but I'm not doing a new post. No refunds, no returns.

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo - Day 1
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/08/10/1036257&from=rss
-- so there's Batman, chatting up Wonder Woman.

Envisioning a wireless future
http://news.com.com/2102-1071_3-5825836.html?tag=st.util.print
>>>When taken in small doses, technical evolution seems fluid and almost natural. But considering the advances in technology over the course of decades reveals a much more radical transformation of the way we live, communicate and entertain.
-- ach, I don't *want* implants!

Time Warner Still Interested In Mobile Service
http://techdirt.com/articles/20050809/2028202_F.shtml
-- these guys should make Roadrunner work properly *first*!

Debian Dissension Gets Louder
http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=157639,00.asp
>>>The Debian Common Core Alliance hasn't even been formally announced yet at LinuxWorld in San Francisco this week, and already one of its prospective members, VA Linux Japan, is explaining why it isn't joining.

DTV Beta: Internet TV on Your Mac
http://participatoryculture.org/download.php
>>>DTV is a new, free and open-source platform for internet television and video. An intuitive interface lets users subscribe to channels, watch video, and build a video library. Our publishing software lets you broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost. The project is non-profit, free and open source, and built on open standards.
-- I'm really stretching by putting this in here. But I think it'll be good to know later on...

Mike Cane

2005-08-10, 15:34

What mobile OS do you want get support for?
http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?p=149816#149816
-- someone asks for a Skype port to the 770.

Tablet tascabile di Nokia con SO Linux
http://www.ziobudda.net/news/see_comments.php?id_notizia=23607
>>>gIANNI scrive: "Sarà disponibile a breve un bel tablet tascabile con sistema operativo linux, della nokia. Il kernel utilizzato è il 2.6 e le gui si basano su Gnome. Tutto l'ambiente di sviluppo è rilasciato sotto licenze Open Source. Il prodotto è visibile sul sito della Nokia: http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,1522,,00.html?orig=/770 L'ambiente di sviluppo è scaricabile a questo indirizzo: http://www.maemo.org/index.html ...dimenticavo, il costo sarà di circa 350 Dollari Americani". [03/08/2005]

maemo applications
http://svenfoo.geekheim.de/index.php/2005-06-17/maemo-applications/
>>>Looks like Abiword and Gnumeric have been ported to the Nokia 770. Let’s hope that the device that I won at GUADEC will arrive soon so that we can start porting GIMP.

-- edited to add --

Nokia/Maemo at GUADEC 6 - Stuttgart
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fcrozat/sets/413224/
-- flickr portfolio.

-- edited again to add --

Reading PDF Documents on a PDA
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4684
>>>Over the months and years, we've seen a lot of proposed methods for reading pdf (Acrobat Reader) documents. I'm not sure, though, if any of these are clean, reliable and relatively successful.
-- I will be so glad to have a 770. This nightmare will then be over.

RogerS

2005-08-11, 02:16

There was a post about the FBReader that said you can't install fonts in the 770. But that turns out to mean there's no installer. This information was posted on the developer list yesterday:

"The 770 uses fontconfig and freetype in the same way as any modern Linux
distribution, i.e. both TTF and Type1 fonts are supported. While there
is no interface for managing fonts on the device, putting the fonts in
~/.fonts/ will make them available to all applications."

Looks like there will be an app soon enough too.

Roger

RogerS

2005-08-11, 02:35

Al Gore, techno-geek businessman:
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1088722,00.html

"But the Treo 650 still hangs at his belt in the fashion statement of the incorrigible techno-geek that he has always admitted to being."

How do we get this man a 770?

Roger

Mike Cane

2005-08-12, 18:40

I debated with myself over where to place this and decided it's of direct use to future 770 owners. Feed your RSS Reader when you get it:

Ziff-Davis RSS Feeds
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1642191,00.asp

Electronic Journals RSS Feeds
http://library.usask.ca/ejournals/rss_feeds.php

It's been quiet on the 770 front. Too quiet! I'd like to see some devs posting about their experiences with the 770. Or are they NDAed against that?

I see Roger reads the DevList. Maybe he should start adding tidbits somewhere...

Mike Cane

2005-08-14, 19:30

It's like a jillion degrees in NYC. I wasn't planning any entries for today, however...

Cowon iAUDIO M5 vs Rio Karma 20GB?
http://niklasblog.com/?p=728
>>>Now, if I could just erase the image of the coming Nokia 770 from my head…

Felicidades debian :D
http://www.e-oss.net/wordpress/?p=18
>>>(como el del nuevo nokia 770 que vendrá con gnu/linux & gnome de serie), usaremos biomáquinas controladas por dispositivos virtuales en plan minority report?? (esperemos que no, dejando a los bioseres tranquilos).

Brillo's barmy Cisco/Nokia rumor (and blackout doctor)
http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/735
>>>I'm saying nothing after my blog melted from a blizzard of hits from Finland after I criticized the Nokia 770.
-- aye, be glad Nokia doesn't have nukes! Nor I, for that matter...

Mike Cane

2005-08-15, 14:42

Damned smiley icon got into the last post due to the text I c&ped. Too lazy to exterminate it. Just know that I Do Not Use Such Abominations.

My latest distraction - the Nokia 770
http://pheitman.blogspot.com/2005/08/my-latest-distraction-nokia-770.html
>>>Lately I've found myself interested to the point of distraction with the idea of getting the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet.
-- nyahahaha. You are powerless against the Mighty Finns!

Mike Cane

2005-08-15, 18:21

Mas sent this to me. I decided to run it here because he makes some very interesting points (if you're perceptive, they'll jump right out; if not, move along...)

Mas would have posted it somewhere himself, but being in the UK, he is suffering net connection problems, the poor lad. (And I exterminated a Smiley you tried to sneak in, Mas!)

The Wireless Life

Concept
Ever since mobile computing began, it has been the dream of development teams and sales execs that their device would become the centre of a digital world, with people swapping information between devices in restaurants and bars or meeting up for a multiplayer game. However, PDAs and their ilk have been around since time immemorial, and it hasn’t happened. Why is this and why would the 770 succeed where so many have failed?

A question of style?
One of the main problems is public perception of such devices. When purchasing any kind of new gadget, much as people try to deny it, other people’s views will play a large part in that decision. Does it have the “wow” factor? The thing is, people’s tastes and expectations change with time and what may seem fantastic and stunning now may be yesterday’s news, all within the space of a month. So, obviously, the aesthetics of the device in question must be taken into consideration. Fortunately, the 770 doesn’t have too many issues on this point, coming in a rather nice aluminium case and having enough controls to be functional, without being cluttered.

Being a brand name is also important. When people buy a Pocket PC (the poor fools), are they more likely to get a HP one or a Fujitsu-Siemens one? When buying a phone, do people choose Sendo over Samsung? No. People associate big brands with instant recognition and plenty of support, which is another major concern; especially when buying expensive equipment. Nokia is known worldwide, even to people living in very deep caves, so this gives it an edge over lesser known rivals.

Getting Technical
It’s a well-known fact that Joe Public is as thick as turnips. Their initial reaction, when confronted with a new piece of technology to use, is an interesting mixture of embarrassment and horror, followed by a question about switching it on. This isn’t to say they want low-level equipment. What they want is cutting edge technology with a plug and play interface. This is why home computers are used a lot more for work than games. Initially, game consoles were very low-powered devices that were complicated to set-up. PCs (and CPC’s) of the time were simpler and more powerful. As time progressed though, their roles reversed, with today’s consoles taking under 2 minutes to set up and start playing, with graphics and sound that constantly push the limits. What this means for the Nokia 770 is that essentially, you need to be surfing in under 5 steps:

1) Stand or sit near Wifi point.
2) Switch on Nokia 770.
3) Press button to open Web browser.
4) Start surfing.

The slightest hint of configuring access points or IP addresses and you can wave goodbye to a third of your users instantly.

RogerS

2005-08-16, 17:07

As of today, we are now in the second half of 3Q. Only 46 days til 3Q ends.

Oh, come on -- don't make us wait 6 more weeks!

Mike Cane

2005-08-16, 17:22

Nokia is under Strict Instructions not to release until I have the $$$ ready. How's XMas sound? It could be worse. Look at what they'll pay in Hong Kong!

Nokia 770: I hope its price is lower than HK$3000
http://www.stevenchoy.com/wordpress/nokia-770-i-hope-its-price-is-lower-than-hk3000/
>>>Nokia 770 Internet Tablet should be available for sale in Hong Kong around the end of this year. I hope it will not be priced too high in Hong Kong so that I can convince myself to buy one.
-- links back to here and my jk article. Nice lad. But in HK? Won't that require a Chinese characterset? Something Nokia told me could not work on it... hmmm!

-- edited to add --

Oh the cheeky bugger. Went and changed the name of his post to:

Nokia 770: I am waiting for it

You think I wouldn't notice? I notice all. It's a curse...

-- edited again to add --

The WirelessTrips WiFi Finder
http://hotspots.wirelesstrips.com/?m=L
All you do is:

1. Choose if you want to see campgrounds, truckstops, or both.
2. Pick a starting location by clicking on the map.
3. Pick an estimated ending location by clicking on the map.

The application will plot WiFi locations in the direction of travel. You can then use that information to steer your course.
-- sourced from BoingBoing (even though they never use any of my damned tips...).

Mike Cane

2005-08-17, 13:31

Minor -- if not trivial -- mentions of the 770 --

Doom pode ser rodado em?
http://www.bernabauer.com/wp/?p=91

Nokia 770
http://www.leon-huang.com/2005/08/17/i-like-this/

Wolfenstein op je rekenmachine
http://www.basschutte.nl/mt/archives/000687.php

untitled
http://www.livejournal.com/users/nikanorov/253756.html

These next two seem to be roboblogs; identical items:

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
http://www.portablegadgets.net/article/11/nokia-internet-tablet

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
http://frittle.org/webblog/article/77/nokia-770-internet-tablet

RogerS

2005-08-17, 17:33

Reading about Night Kitchen's new TK3 tools brought me to:
http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2005/05/devices_converg.html

It's a May mention of the Nokia 770 from the Institute for the Future of the Book, which is interesting in and of itself, I think.

On the front page of the futureofthebook.org site is a Tools section, with the aforementioned TK3 and "sophie," which turns out to be the next-generation open-source version of what TK3 is today. Sophie will specifically be available on Linux.

And Sophie and Internet Tablets will be a killer combo: handheld multimedia easily created by anyone.

Roger

Mike Cane

2005-08-17, 22:40

I've developed an RSI and shouldn't have been online *at all* today. I'm taking tomorrow off. Roger Sperberg will post any 770 stuff that might pop up.

alslayer

2005-08-18, 17:10

RSI - Really scary idea?

RogerS

2005-08-18, 17:29

'Guest host' for Mike Cane, who should return tomorrow.

Preview: Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/
Nothing new.

Passing reference to Nokia 770:

Nokia gets iTunes Before Everybody
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/nokia-gets-itunes-before-everybody-117963.php

Doom ported to the iPod
http://kokulsworld.blogspot.com/2005/08/doom-ported-to-ipod.html
>>Sure, it’s not quite Doom on the Nokia 770, but you take what you can get.

Edited to add --

On the developer's list . . .
There was some anxiety about this note added recently to the Nokia website:

"The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet's software is upgradeable and currently runs on the Linux-based Internet Tablet 2005 software edition. There is a planned launch next year of an operating system upgrade – the Internet Tablet 2006 software edition – that will support additional services, including Internet telephony (VoIP) and Instant Messaging."

Nokia engineers reassured the list that the upgrade was indeed from one Linux version to a fuller Linux version.

And again to add --

Nokia Internet Tablet 770
http://fuyichin.blogspot.com/2005/08/nokia-internet-tablet-770.html
>>Many company try to make linux available on embedded device, but most of them is not really successful, I hope Nokia can change this.

Nokian Linux-päätteellä lupaavat näkymät
http://verteksi.net/soks/2005/08/08/nokian-linux-paatteella-lupaavat-nakymat/
Looks Finnish to me. But doesn't look like inside info -- it's got the price and weight and stuff in it. Maybe a Nokia expatriate will clue us in.

Nokia Debuts Linux-Based Web Device
http://spaces.msn.com/members/digitalrocks/Blog/cns!1pjRsxwOPb1515UcloXM9R0w!168.entry
OK, I know there's nothing new in this two-month-old info (copied from Reuters maybe?) even though it was posted August 8. But check out the domain name! In your face, MS!

And again --

Nokia et l'art du jeu vidéo
http://gadgets.typepad.com/fr/2005/08/nokia_et_lart_d.html
I'm maybe getting obsessive here. This is a two-week-old secondhand report that appeared HERE first. In French. But the comment's kind of interesting. From Babelfish:
>>The image is impressive. To make turn Doom on telephone Internet 770 of Nokia in quality more than interesting makes think that later it will be possible to exchange its portable console for its telephone. Samsung already does it with its telephone dedicated to the video games. But this result is much more impressive in my opinion.

-- Roger
Get better, Mike!

Mike Cane

2005-08-19, 11:53

Well, the welt is gone, but I'll take it easy today. Thanks, Roger. Will start up later today.

Al, RSI = Repetitive Strain Injury. Just wait til it happens to you! Painful bugger, it is. One tip: Naproxen. 500 mg.

RogerS

2005-08-19, 12:18

One last spasm --

Hit List
http://spaces.msn.com/members/crysonception/Blog/cns!1pN3OOzO4bYxra7K3zLrInWQ!193.entry
Top 20 pictured electronic devices. Can't tell what is driving the order, but the 770 fell from #4 last week to #6 this week! On the other hand, there's no previous list. Is this a Japanese roboblog? Or just a copy-and-paste blog?

Later --
OK, I see it's Chinese. And a photo labeled "My Niece" But definitely some cut-and-paste action going on.

-- Roger
Now back to you, Mike.

Mike Cane

2005-08-19, 14:11

Nah, that's no roboblog, Roger --

http://spaces.msn.com/members/crysonception/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c=

Mike Cane

2005-08-19, 14:20

Maemo Terminal for Nokia 770
http://www.portablegadgets.net/article/12/maemo-terminal
-- itT is the source.

LAS CAMPAÑAS EN INTERNET
http://spaces.msn.com/members/juniorwebs/Blog/cns!1pF60-8TmuMdUgoEMbGWy8CQ!1409.entry
>>>También la NSeries de Nokia tiene su propia web publicitaria (hecha en Flash por supuesto) en la que nos ponen los dientes largos todo lo que pueden y más… Por cierto que el que tiene la cámara de 2 MegaPíxels y lente Carl Zeiss (las que usa Sony) ha sido elegido móvil del año en Europa, eso es porque no ha salido el Nokia 770 (se me hace la boca agua solo de decir su nombre), aunque en sí, no es un teléfono.

Search (to) your (heart’s) content
http://www.sellingwaves.com/2005/08/18/search-to-your-hearts-content/
>>>Put a Nokia 770 in my hands, the entire Stanford library on Google Print and the desire to learn about some new topic in my head (it happens every once in a while), I’ll be buying books left and right (or, rather, I would be, if publishers could get their goddamned act together and back some universal electronic publishing standards [ð: TeleRead]).

770 Fan has done a -- urrgggh, I hate these!! -- podcast about the 770 --
http://770fan.blogspot.com/2005/08/so-i-was-up-late-last-night-and.html

NOTE: I will be taking this weekend OFF. At least that's the bloody plan.

RogerS

2005-08-19, 14:26

alslayer

2005-08-19, 16:17

770 Fan has done a -- urrgggh, I hate these!! -- podcast about the 770 --
http://770fan.blogspot.com/2005/08/so-i-was-up-late-last-night-and.html

Tee Hee
Don't give a geek free time or he does something stupid like this. I just did it to say I was the first to podcast about the 770.
:D

Mike Cane

2005-08-19, 19:27

On the developer's list, there was some question about how you'd find a WiFi hot spot. Florian Boor at kernel concepts wrote:

>>There will be a simple (and easy to use!) tool to discover wireless networks and
manage connection settings shipped with the devices.

Glad that's clarified.

-- Roger

>slapping my head<

Yes, that was also in the device I originally fondled too. Completely slipped my mind and I never mentioned it. I had used it too!

Mike Cane

2005-08-19, 22:41

We Got Mentioned in Nokia 770 Blog
http://www.portablegadgets.net/article/17/we-got-mentioned-in-nokia-770-blog
>>>Alright, this is not a grand award, but I am still glad that Alex Moskalyuk mentioned about Portable Gadgets in his Nokia 770 Blog. His entry has brought extra traffics to our website today.
-- bah! I mentioned you too! But never again!! (Just kidding!)

How Matchbox went from a one person hobby project to a company product
http://blobviola.blogspot.com/2005/08/how-matchbox-went-from-one-person.html
>>>Questo sembra interessante, se non altro perche' si puo' programmare molto facilmente (almeno in teoria). C'e' anche un plug-in per eclipse per simulare il device che e' il punto debole del sistema. Il nokia 770 sembra essere un po' una ciofeca dal punto di vista della velocita', memoria di massa (usa RS-MMC) e dimensioni dello schermo.
Il punto importante pero' e' che la nokia ha notato il progetto del tipo e ci ha costruito sopra qualcosa che potrebbe anche rimpiazzare la serie60.
-- you can go Babelfish this. Saving my arm still.

Nokia 770 Blog
http://nokia770.com/
-- haven't been there in a while. Some news too. Go look. And that's right, Alex -- 2GB RS-MMCs are find to find. Mainly because they don't yet exist! I'm not worried. I expect a hard drive in a future 770.

Right. That's it for today. OFF for this weekend. Roger can add if he wishes. So can Al. So can Mas (if he can get a bloody connection ever again!)

Mike Cane

2005-08-20, 16:24

Ah, bugger it.

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet With Linux!!
http://palmgal.typepad.com/techtalk/2005/08/nokia_770_inter.html

Interesting site too. Go look.

Right. NOW I'm off.

Cue Roger!

alslayer

2005-08-20, 22:46

We now know you don't take any days off. Rain, snow, rsi, Mike will be there. I also noticed that you can't help sending articles to Jeff at writingonyourpalm.net. You are addicted and you can't help it.

:D

shonk

2005-08-21, 09:05

Maemo Terminal for Nokia 770
Search (to) your (heart’s) content
http://www.sellingwaves.com/2005/08/18/search-to-your-hearts-content/
>>>Put a Nokia 770 in my hands, the entire Stanford library on Google Print and the desire to learn about some new topic in my head (it happens every once in a while), I’ll be buying books left and right (or, rather, I would be, if publishers could get their goddamned act together and back some universal electronic publishing standards [ð: TeleRead]).

Wow, that was quick. I can't believe you unearthed my gibberish in less than 12 hours.

I haven't posted here before, but I've been following this thread for a while and I suppose now would be as good a time as any to thank you for keeping all of us 770 enthusiasts updated on the latest goings-on.

Mike Cane

2005-08-21, 12:33

Thanks for those words.

Really, I am OFF today. Just this entry -- and a few for the ortho blog too...

Podcast Interview on Nokia Tablet
http://www.3ringpodcast.com/2005/08/19/podcast-interview-on-nokia-tablet/
>>>From LUG Radio, here is a nice podcast interview with some Nokia Engineers about the new Nokia 770 tablet, my new love.
-- I think Al picked this up first at his 770 Fan blog; then I mentioned it at the original PIC version of this "blog." Worth another mention. Even though I've yet to listen -- come on, it's a podcast!

-- edited to add --

Had a C&P malfunction, I see. Plus, there's this too:

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet: A Non-Voice Device From the World’s Mobile Phone Industry Leader
http://www.mobile-phones-news.com/45/nokia-770-internet-tablet-a-non-voice-device-from-the-worlds-mobile-phone-industry-leader/
>>>Strange, but true. Finland’s Nokia, which ranks first place in the global mobile phone industry, is releasing a device this month that does not allow the user (at least initially) to make phone calls or send text messages: the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. However, an upgrade is planned for next year that will enable Internet telephony or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and instant messaging.

Now I am OFF. No, really!

alslayer

2005-08-22, 03:22

One of the interesting things about the podcast is that the nokia people are just experimenting with this device and linux. It seemed they didn't have any great linux migration plans yet.

Mike Cane

2005-08-22, 14:54

https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/cf/eas/reports/GenericSearchResult.cfm?RequestTimeout=500

-- the above URL lists 591(!) applications from Nokia pending before the FFC. I figure *one* of them has to be the 770.

Whose got time to slog through this?

OTOH, if you are experienced at searching the FCC database (I am not), you might know of a quicker way and can pull the 770 info up for the rest of us to see.

-- edited to add --

Well, that URL doesn't work now!

This is the Search Form. Plonk in NOKIA as the search term (Applicant Name) and you should get the 591.

https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/cf/eas/reports/GenericSearch.cfm

Just checked. That URL will work.

Mike Cane

2005-08-22, 15:03

SEE ABOVE POST FIRST!

Word Processing on Nokia 770
http://www.portablegadgets.net/article/23/word-processing-on-nokia-770
-- he refers to --
http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/archives/maemo-abiword
-- new screen snaps of the AbiWord word processor. Good lad! But, uh, it would have been nice if you'd posted here too. I do allow such things. Ask Roger and Mas!

Doom runs well on the Nokia 770 (Engadget)
http://marilynvos.blogspot.com/2005/08/doom-runs-well-on-nokia-770-engadget.html
>>>If someone told us that Doom would run at full resolution—and freaking fast—on the Nokia 770 that we’ve seen, played with, and sincerely cast doubt upon, we probably wouldn’t have believed them. Had we not watched the video. But damn, does that Linux Doom port fly on that thing. Just thought you might like to know—yes, there’s a little hope left yet.
-- I quoted the doubtress in full!

Reggie

2005-08-22, 15:29

[url]
Whose got time to slog through this?

Didn't find anything about the Nokia 770. I filtered the results on dates between 1/1/2005 and today. The only thing I found there was the Nokia N90, 9300, and a blutooth headset.

I guess FCC hasn't approved the 770 yet.

FoulPlay

2005-08-22, 18:59

Didn't find anything about the Nokia 770. I filtered the results on dates between 1/1/2005 and today. The only thing I found there was the Nokia N90, 9300, and a blutooth headset.

I guess FCC hasn't approved the 770 yet.

No, it has not been approved yet.

RogerS

2005-08-22, 20:19

OK, back in town. No web from Friday to Monday.

No news to report. But there was a story in the NY Times:
Once a Booming Market, Educational Software for the PC Takes a Nose Dive
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/technology/22soft.html?ex=1282363200&en=eeb2f334cfb10c81&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
>>an old-fashioned tool: flashcards intended to complement what students learn on the computer

That reference is misleading -- the flashcards aren't electronic but on paper -- but it made me think that the 770 would make for a great flashcard experience, built on a website.

I'd even put number flashcards sideways so you could use the 770 in portrait mode.

Well, just thinking.

-- Roger

Mike Cane

2005-08-23, 00:28

The new Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
http://www.fraggerock.com/?p=85
-- clever roboblog. Check out the idiotic comment from "Agent Lead."

No evening update to the Ortho blog. Thank Bill Gates: PC infested with garbage and had to disinfect it. Die Microsoft Die!

Mike Cane

2005-08-23, 01:23

Just about to logoff for the night and this stupidity hits the fan:

Kallasvuo Should Be Working on Selling Nokia
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_lynn&sid=abxvw2REhFGo

It's already been picked up by Techdirt, so I expect it all over the place -- like bad projectile vomit -- when I logon in the morning.

>>>It is hard to see the company becoming more valuable over the next 10 years -- and the moment to cash in the chips for shareholders is right now.

Not one mention of the 770.

This guy is a dope.

RogerS

2005-08-23, 15:44

Marcelo Oliveiro appears to be one of the Brazilian software developers who've given us Abiword and Python for the 770. I think he ported Doom, but if not at least he was the first to point us to it.

Anyway, on his blog now is a reference to the Quake 3 Arena source code, released Aug 20 under the GPL. Could this be the next 770 game? OK, Marcelo, you can do it!
Quake 3 Source : Código liberado!
http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/archives/quake-3-source-codigo-liberado

-- Roger

Mike Cane

2005-08-23, 16:14

I saw that item, Roger, but missed the connection.

Résumé sur le Nokia 770
http://s.schuller.free.fr/dotclear/index.php?2005/08/09/136-resume-sur-le-nokia-770
-- refers to --
L’ordinateur de poche de Nokia sous Linux pour la rentrée
http://www.toolinux.com/news/materiels/l_ordinateur_de_poche_de_nokia_sous_linux_pour_la_ rentree_ar6525.html
-- the usual write-up. But in French.

Nokia 770
http://igiskard.blogspot.com/2005/08/nokia-770.html
-- ditto. And refers to the Doom video at this site. Good lad.

-- edited to add --

Nokia Wireless Keyboard
http://reviews.cnet.com/Nokia_Wireless_Keyboard/4505-3134_7-31294260-2.html?tag=top
-- let's see how soon a 770 driver for this is hacked together...

RogerS

2005-08-24, 01:56

On the developer's list was this note from Anderson Briglia, of the INdT/Manaus 10LE Kernel Team, about using a Nokia Bluetooth keyboard with the 770. Everyone is wondering about how the keyboard situation will be resolved, so I am reproducing his comments in full here:

>>Just to report: I tested a nokia bluetooth keyboard with 770. I can connect the devices, using bluez utility 'hidd'. The problem is that some of keypad's keys has the same keycode of keyboad's keys (eg. <enter>). When I type 'enter' on the bluetooth keyboard, the virtual keyboad appears. Another detected problem is with the application 'Notes'. It did not recognize the bluetooth keyboard and I can type something there using the virtual keyboard only. I didn't test all the applications.

>>I don't know if the maemo applications are ready to use bluetooth devices, but I think that could be a good idea to implement this support.

Here's hoping this all gets worked out before too long.

--

Plus, at nokia.com, I never noticed the Spotlight movie before. It has some information that's not exactly new, but seemed new to me, at least in the consumer venue, as far as I have noticed anyway -- or maybe it's the positioning that's new. I don't recall ever seeing lines in the commercials before like "Introducing the Nokia Linux Platform" and "This is the first product running on the Linux-based Internet Tablet 2005 software edition" and "Software is mostly open-source and the majority of the source code is available to developers" and "Access development tools at www.maemo.org".

Really selling Linux as much as the other aspects it seemed. Of course, most of the photos selling the wide range of applications showed the same single app on-screen.

Spotlight
http://nokia.com/nokia/0,,75030,00.html

BTW, has anyone seen the Sketchpad application?

-- Roger

Mike Cane

2005-08-24, 21:46

Beginning tomorrow, Roger -- with Mas, I hope -- will take over this "blog" while I go on an unforseen and indeterminate leave of absence.

alslayer

2005-08-25, 16:36

Alas poor Mike, we knew him well.

RogerS

2005-08-26, 02:55

OK, here goes nothin'!

Does the Nokia 770 have sex appeal?
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4815
At Mobileread, Colin Dunstan asks "[D]oes it have the potential to replace regular PDAs to become the new e-book hardware reader of our choice? Can it even replace the notebook for wireless Web surfing? Al of the 770 Fan blog wonders too why so many of us enjoy reading up on this device. Yes, why do we?"
That's easy -- because we can feel in our bones this is the one.

Orb Networks - a perfect companion to the Nokia 770
http://pheitman.blogspot.com/2005/08/orb-networks-perfect-companion-to.html
>>My expectation is that the Nokia 770 will free me from my desk, allowing me to access information and content wherever I can find a WiFi connection. That is, instead of having to sit at my computer to read RSS feeds, google the answers to questions and browse the internet, I will be able to take it with me.

Nokia and Gnome
http://nokiaeec.blogspot.com/2005/08/recent-nokia-cellular-accessories-and.html
>>The big news of the day is that Nokia has released their internet tablet. Effectively a tiny handheld computer based on Linux, Gtk+, an Opera/Gtk+ and GStreamer (I previously stated that they used WebCore/Gtk+, but I was wrong). The developer site is very interesting: Nokia contributions to Open Source project. Developer Tutorials. API docs for Hildon, their extra widgets. This is the first mass-market use of Gnome technologies, this is *very* exciting. Of course, its only missing Mono for extended productivity.
That would be big news all right. Right up there with Dewey beats Truman. I think they're jumping the gun, especially as this was posted yesterday.

Doom ported to the iPod (Engadget)
http://recieverdepot.com/?p=29
>>Sure, it’s not quite Doom on the Nokia 770 , but you take what you can get.
We've been here before.

诺基亚首款Linux互联网络终端设备770
http://spaces.msn.com/members/zuoliang/Blog/cns!1pcEqXq6froVVL5CgcUfP_9g!202.entry
Pretty enthusiastic -- four pictures. Full write-up in Chinese. Looks good to me, Liang Zuo.

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet [ 手持网络设备 NOKIA ]
http://raie.blogbus.com/logs/2005/08/1386343.html
Chinese? Anyway, the basics.

Kannettavan selaimen metsästys
http://spaces.msn.com/members/digimaailma/Blog/cns!1pem0nv-LWK3y8J33XVLsqeg!326.entry
Finnish? Come on you Nokia guys, jump in and help us out.
Anyway, looks like it's comparing the Sony PSP to the 770.

If blogs talk, why not books?
http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=3467
>>Sounds like WiFi- or Bluetooth-equipped devices like the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet and properly accessorized PDAs can still enjoy the benefits of TTS without having to have the huge RAM necessary to run it.
This is about Talkr, a text-to-speech website that will turn blogposts into mp3s you can listen to, with speculation on how it might apply to e-books on devices too small to run TTS software. (Hey, I should know: I wrote it.)

Roboblog
Altel Cell Phone Blogger
http://www.altelcellphone.com/blogger/2005/08/cellular-phone-siemens-sources-and_25.html
>>... The Nokia 770 will connect to the Internet through Wi-Fi or, with Bluetooth, through your cell phone's cellular connection. Wow! what an amazing concept! Creating a distinct portable device exactly ...
Who's being quoted?

RogerS

2005-08-26, 03:48

Not sure if these have appeared or not. They look new to me.

Browser Options for the Nokia 770
http://www.postneo.com/2005/08/09/browser-options-for-the-nokia-770
>>It looks like users will have several browser options to choose from when the Nokia 770 drops.
Goes briefly into Opera, Manaos (a port of Minimo), GPE Minibrowser, GTK+Webcore. I'm still rooting for Firefox because then I could run TiddlyWiki, the microcontent wiki. (It's made for the 770 -- a perfect match if I ever saw one.) Hey, shouldn't Postneo 2.0 be syndicated in planet.maemo?

Nokia 770 to Support SIP-complaint VoIP
http://www.tmcnet.com/tmcnet/articles/2005/nokia-770-sip-voip-movial-linux.htm
>>Helsinki-based Movial Corp. developed VoIP Connect -- a third-party, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-compliant application designed to run on the 770’s Linux environment.
>>But even though Skype also offers a Linux-based download for the desktop, Movial’s CEO doesn’t view the popular peer-to-peer (P2P) application as a competitor to his own product ....
>>The PC client is available immediately. VoIP Connect for the Nokia 770 will be available this summer. The product was never announced because Movial didn’t want to pre-empt Nokia’s launch of the 770.
I know this is a lot to quote from a 3-month-old article, but it's all new to me.

Nokia/770
http://the.taoofmac.com/space/Nokia/770
>>The 770 is a Linux-powered tablet with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support. And, in case you missed that bit, it's a Nokia, but it's not a phone.
Don't know when this appeared (The Tao of Mac is off our beaten path), but sometime after the Doom video. A really varied -- and a lot of -- linked resources.

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet
Nothing new here, in fact it looks like it was last updated a month ago. Nothing about the apps that have begun to appear, games, browsers and such. But pre-release, the 770 is already in Wikipedia!

Most Popular Tablet PCs
http://www.tabletpcreviewspot.com/
>>Number of times viewed in last 5 days: 117 (17th out of 20 listed)
This last site is for TabletPC's (it has a page for the 770). Who would think to go here at all for the 770? Yet it beats our the Viewsonic and HP/Compaq tablets. Actually I count 28 models at this site. 17th out of 28 at a Windows-only site and it's not even out yet. Good buzz.

-- Roger, filling in for Mike

RogerS

2005-08-26, 11:27

OK, I'm introducing a new feature here -- the daily countdown to the Nokia 770's availability.

Friday, August 26, 2005
No change. Still 3Q with no further details.

35 days till Sept 30, last day of 3Q.

-- Roger

RogerS

2005-08-26, 20:27

A month ago I discovered that Koen Kooi had ported GpsDrive to Maemo and put up word on the original 770 ersatz blog. (Where was that? I've already lost track.)

His port of this app still hasn't shown up in the list on the wiki and I haven't heard a word from anyone interested or intrigued by it.

The question that hadn't been answered was whether the 770 would be able to take input directly from a GPS receiver, and that information is now in. Alexander responded in a comment at Koen's blog that:
>>Yes, 770 will be able to connect to the Bluetooth-equipped GPS receiver using BT Serial Port profile. All you need for that is to get a console and configure BT connection.

There's a whole load of devices listed that the software is compatible with.

Given that GpsDrive (see below) can display street maps as well as topographical maps and the 770 screen offers such detail, this seems like a good combo. Of course, if you know where you are, you can enter the information manually too.

You can see a screen capture from Koen's port (resized but still bigger than 770-screen-lifesize) in the news section of this blog:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/content/view/94/2/

GpsDrive on maemo
http://dominion.kabel.utwente.nl/koen/blog/pyblosxom.cgi/Handhelds/gpsdrive-maemo.html

You can learn more about GpsDrive from its main site:
GpsDrive
http://gpsdrive.kraftvoll.at/index.shtml
>>GpsDrive is a car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system. GpsDrive displays your position provided from your NMEA capable GPS receiver on a zoomable map, the map file is autoselected depending of the position and prefered scale. Speech output is supported if the "festival" software is running. The maps are autoselected for best resolution depending of your position and can be downloaded from Internet.

Oh, yeah, the website says you can download NASA satellite images for this. I don't think the image in Koen's example is one of those. Or is it? If you look at the Italy photo at GpsDrive, it's very similar.

RogerS

2005-08-27, 03:16

Slim pickings today. I may go slightly orthogonal if it stays this way, but I'm sticking with just the one blog.

Will your favorite file format last?
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4826&highlight=favorite
>>If you have eReader or MobiPocket books, for example, how convinced are you that you'll be able to use them when you move to a linux handheld like the Nokia 770, for example?

This is a perennial discussion topic, in this case combining both computer formats and media/multimedia formats, including one close to my interests, e-book formats.

And Al at 770fan (http://770fan.blogspot.com/2005/08/also-while-i-was-looking-around-at.html) picked up on our discussion of Koen's GpsDrive port and did some poking around of his own there, discovering Koen's mention of Matthias Steinbauer's GPE-calendar port to Maemo. OK, I confess -- I don't want to think of the 770 as a PDA. I'm guilty of passing over that one in silence.

But really, which is more exciting, another calendar app on another device, or connecting a GPS receiver to the 770's 225-ppi, 800-pixel wide screen, both of which you can carry around with you? I rest my defense.

-- Roger, still sitting in for Mike

RogerS

2005-08-27, 13:47

Saturday, August 27, 2005
No change. Still 3Q with no further details.

The countdown continues: 34 days till Sept 30, last day of 3Q.

-- Roger

RogerS

2005-08-27, 13:56

The accessories article (http://www.internettablettalk.com/content/view/92/2/) here at Internettablettalk spawned a brief exchange about what types of RS-MMC work with the Nokia 770 on the Nokia users list:

>> Can anyone confirm which of the following types of RS-MMC would work with the
>> Nokia 770? The specs just indicate "RS-MMC."
>>
>> 1) RS-MMC
>> 2) DV RS-MMC
>> 3) MMC Mobile
>
>I do not know what 3 is but 1+2 should work just fine.

The interlocutor is our Reggie and the answerer is Nils Faerber of Kernel Concepts (http://oss.kernelconcepts.de/maemo/), who've already ported Plucker Viewer and GPE apps to Maemo.

Guess this clears that up! Now when do those 2GB cards show up?

-- Roger

RogerS

2005-08-27, 14:32

Интернет на борту самолёта
http://www.livejournal.com/users/k_79/73825.html

Always the international flavor here.

Anyway, this seems to say that the blogger was trying out the WiFi on a Lufthansa flight using a Nokia 770. Makes sense if he's got one.

OK, so how about sharing with your American friends now?

Mike Cane

2005-08-27, 14:38

Just wanted to point out that I wished these two babies used RS-MMC instead of SD. I don't know the video format, though. MPEG-2 is doubtful.

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/000778.html
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/000782.html

Roger can investigate. Or Reggie. Or Al. Or Mas...

Hint, hint, hint, hint, hint...

Mike Cane

2005-08-27, 17:50

Just came across this, which I think would be *the* test for the 770's PDF functionality:

http://www.digipuppet.com/

-- click on Winter 2005 to see the Mother of All PDFs. Scroll through. When you hit page 11, you'll go GAAAAAH!

Perhaps one of the Devs can try it and check in?

Carry on, Roger. And Mas. And Al. etc.

alslayer

2005-08-28, 03:42

OK, I confess -- I don't want to think of the 770 as a PDA. I'm guilty of passing over that one in silence.

I am shocked.
:eek:

RogerS

2005-08-28, 15:09

Sunday, August 28, 2005
No change. Release still listed as 3Q with no further details.

The countdown continues: 33 days till Sept 30, last day of 3Q.

-- Roger

RogerS

2005-08-28, 15:21

Not a lot new showing up

Maemo
http://layala.blogspot.com/2005/08/maemo.html
A blog in Mexico, discovering you can develop now in Maemo without having to wait for the 770 to come out. And, hey, you can find out how to take screen captures inside Maemo in the developer's list archives. I know: I asked there.

tintachina
http://tintachina.com/archivo/nokia_770.php
>>In my strategy for the next months Nokia 770 Internet Tablet is a fundamental piece. In the Web of Nokia Spain they mark it clearly with "next", so I deduce that we are one of the countries in which it will be put on sale "in the third trimester of the year". That is, already.

OK, apologies for the rough translation. That's Babelfish for you.

Notes that the 770 doesn't have a camera. How the heck you drop the cost and throw in every feature is beyond me. And what's this in a comment -- no, don't wait for la "2ª edición" before you buy. It'll be worth it now.

Edited to add notice that over at
Pixel y Dixel
http://pixelydixel.blogspot.com/2005/08/nokia-770-un-microordenador.html
this report is quoted in full in "Nokia 770 Un microORDENADOR!" (That is, Nokia 770 A microCOMPUTER!)

Error correction
At the beginning of August there was a flurry of attention when Mohammed DAMT (who works "for a telecommunication company which is located in Helsinki, Finland") compiled the game Prince of Persia in Ubuntu and succeeded in running it in Maemo as well.

Unfortunately, the picture that ran at Nokia770.com was actually the Ubuntu version. Here's the Maemo game capture that Mohammed posted (http://aksi.mdamt.net/log/ar/2005-07-31-141/#comments), which is, as you can see, running at 320 x 240.

http://topicalweb.com/images/prince-of-persia-0-4.jpg

Marcelo Oliveira (http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/), the leading games enthusiast among the crew, promised he'd put the Brazilian "bug-fixing guru" Cidorvan on it. Any success, guys?

-- Roger

RogerS

2005-08-29, 13:28

Monday, August 29, 2005
No change. Release still listed as 3Q with no further details.

The countdown continues: 32 days till Sept 30, last day of 3Q.

-- Roger

shonk

2005-08-29, 18:50

And what's this in a comment -- no, don't wait for la "2ª edición" before you buy. It'll be worth it now.

Someone in the comments had repeated the rumor that the 770 is really slow; tintachina's full response was "Slow... It was bound to have some problem :( The ideal would be to wait for the second edition, but the reality is that there's nothing that measures up in the marketplace, not even the PSP." Based on that, I don't think he's actually planning to wait for the second edition.

Plus, as we all know, that "really slow" rumor isn't terribly credible.

RogerS

2005-08-30, 11:37

Based on that, I don't think he's actually planning to wait for the second edition.
Sounds like your Spanish is better than my Babelfish.

RogerS

2005-08-30, 11:39

Tuesday, August 30, 2005
No change. Release still listed as 3Q with no further details.

The countdown continues: 31 days till Sept 30, last day of 3Q.

-- Roger

RogerS

2005-08-30, 11:48

A pickup from our front page
GpsDrive on Maemo
http://www.portablegadgets.net/article/35/gpsdrive-on-maemo

Passing mention
夏季新技术热潮 050829
Summer new technical upsurge 05/08/29
http://spaces.msn.com/members/mooncolor/Blog/cns!1pRaaoUnmjKAzkjYJIiy416Q!265.entry

Sheer speculation coming up on my part
Specs meet the real world
http://blogs.gnome.org/view/tko/2005/08/30/0
>>I've been playing aroung with Jabber and loudmouth a bit

This is from Tommi Komulainen's blog, via Planet.Maemo. I suspect this might be related to get a Google Talk-compatible IM. For Internet Tablet 2005, I hope?

RogerS

2005-08-30, 21:18

Long, interesting post here on the blog *Michael Parekh on IT*
On Sony PSP as a Web Browsing Platform
http://mp.blogs.com/mp/2005/08/on_sony_psp_a_w.html
>>Regular readers know of my never-ending quest for the perfect, on-the-go wireless web tablet/PDA, that can be used for regular internet activities anywhere in the house, and preferably on the go, using Wi-Fi, EV-DO and/or Cellular networks.

Following Russell Beattie's enthusiastic reports of surfing with the PSP, Parekh jumped into the water and found it less than pleasant:

>>[T]he key problems [of the PSP]: no keyboard, cryptic interface, and memory hog.
...
>>It takes a lot of add-ons to make the PSP a viable internet browsing device, and by the time you do so, you've got something like the Pepperpad . . . that's to be priced around $850
...
>>Or you could buy the PSP for $230, add a keyboard when it's out for $50, then add 2GB of memory, assuming it works, for another $200, and you've got a barely passable internet surfing device for around $500.

The reason I'm posting this report here and not in the sporadic PSP forum is because Parekh wonders why Beattie liked the PSP so much when he panned the Nokia 770 on its announcement.

Of course, we know that the 770's display is better suited for browsing and that the on-screen keyboard works better on its bigger display. And its UI is based on existing approaches, not going its own way. When you add that to Beattie's instant-on gratification, I think Parekh is going to like the 770 a lot.

Parekh concludes by asking if the PSP is really "an internet tablet? Not yet." And you can see he's ready for a real one. Like the Nokia 770. Coming out 3Q 2005.

Nokia 770
http://www.northspace.com/2005/08/nokia-770/
>>Teemu is playing with cool toys at the company he works for, Movial, which is developing components and software for such products as the Nokia 770, which should be on the market soon. It looks like a pretty cool toy, but although the screen is apparently big (800x480) and gorgeous, its battery life and local storage make it a poor choice for me even compared to today’s crop of PDAs (which it is not). I continue to wait for the ultimate handheld connected device.

Nokia 770
http://www.alaked.net/2005/08/29/nokia-770/
Another discovery in Spain.

-- Roger

RogerS

2005-08-31, 19:06

As reported here at itT (http://www.internettablettalk.com/content/view/95/2/) (and simultaneously at Postneo 2.0 (http://www.postneo.com/2005/08/31/nokia-770-gains-fcc-approval) ), the FCC has given its approval for the 770 to be sold in the U.S.

Among the documents filed with the FCC is a user's manual. And among the many warnings contained in this manual is the following:

"Parts of the device are magnetic. ... Do not place credit cards or other magnetic storage media near the device, because information stored on them may be erased."

Does this mean sticking a 770 in a purse or backpack next to a wallet might kerfluddle one's credit cards? How far apart do you have to be not be "near" -- that is, to be safe?

Or is this no more dangerous than a Palm, say?

-- Roger

alslayer

2005-08-31, 19:54

Did I mention that you are doing a great job Roger? Cause you are.
:)

RogerS

2005-09-01, 11:16

Wednesday, September 1, 2005
Change seems imminent, with FCC acceptance as of last Friday -- see the front page here (http://www.internettablettalk.com/content/view/95/2/) , where Reggie broke the news. Release is still listed as 3Q with no further details.

However, review units are being slotted, and one ought to hit the itT delivery slot in a couple weeks. Look for more than one review here, btw.

The countdown continues: 30 days till Sept 30, last day of 3Q.

-- Roger

RogerS

2005-09-01, 11:53

Where to start?
Nokia 770 Gets FCC Approval
http://www.internettablettalk.com/content/view/95/2/
Oh, right, I just linked to this page in the previous post (smack on the side of the head)! Well, it's big enough news, being the first external event we can tie to the release.

Reggie writes that he's been trying to pin down whether the unit in the US would have 802.11g as well as 802.11b, because for the longest time the nokiausa.com didn't say that (the nokia.com site did). When he saw yesterday that the information had changed, he thought to check the FCC data and bingo! he discovered the news.

Websites with interest in this sort of thing and presumably mainstream media are being sent review copies, so you should see lots of articles about this soon.

Hey, what about developers? When are they getting devices?

Nokia 770 Gains FCC Approval
http://www.postneo.com/2005/08/31/nokia-770-gains-fcc-approval
>>I had completely missed this, but apparently the Nokia 770 was approved by the FCC on Friday. Thanks for the heads up, Koen! Everyone in #maemo is drooling right about now.
Matt Croydon was an early poster on this news, with links to specific documents part of the FCC submission, such as the user manual (https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/forms/blobs/retrieve.cgi?attachment_id=575809&native_or_pdf=pdf).

Of course, Planet Maemo (http://planet.maemo.org) had picked it up, and Nokia 770 blog (http://nokia770.com/) chimed in, with some follow-up this morning about review copies being sent out. And Teleread (http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=3510) ran a blurb about it, with a graphic taken from the user manual. (Hey! I wrote it. I know where it came from.)

Latecomers --
Nokia 770 Receives FCC Approval
http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=1613
>>The Nokia 770 internet tablet gained FCC approval yesterday, hopefully pointing to an imminent release.
Mobile Burn. Didn't say how it stumbled across the news . . .

Nokia 770 Receives FCC Approval
http://www.pdaology.com/item/19564/
At pdaology. Credits Mobile Burn. Hey, it's tagged under mobile phone! Not yet, eh? Edited to add -- Wait! I guess Minisip means VoIP is on-hand now, not later. My bad!

Expect we'll start to see MSM picking it up now, which follows sites like Mobile Burn.

Mobile-Review.com Nokia forum
Nokia 770 Internet Tablet is on FCC site
http://www.mobile-review.com/forum2/showthread.php?t=34880

Real news --
Frozen Bubble on Maemo
http://fb-maemo.blogspot.com/
>>I just got Frozen Bubble to compile on Maemo -- One change was needed in the source, but otherwise game is playable 'out-of-the-box'. I'll document the compile procedure Real Soon Now...
A whole blog by Jussi Kukkonen on his efforts to port the game Frozen Bubble. Latest entry is on how to fit the game to the 770's landscape orientation when it's a portrait game.

Passing mention --
PSP Launch Today!
http://www.ambientperformance.com/connection/archives/2005/09/psp_launch_toda.html
>>Another handheld device I'm tracking is the Nokia 770 mini-tablet - a Wifi enabled handheld with a browser which will play Flash, thus enabling low cost learning games development.

Ambient Connection is the website, games the focus it seems (or at least of this entry).

A stretch --
Nokia makes the case for mobile TV
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/31/nokia_mobile_tv/
This report may have something to do with the video capabilities of the 770.

-- Roger

RogerS

2005-09-01, 12:09

Mike's got bigger visions in sight and he advised us he won't be returning to write this blog.

Actually I predict he won't be able to go cold turkey, and we'll see sporadic contributions from him. (This is a safe prediction, because he made it first.)

He'll give us another full report of the 770 in the near future. Hey, Fondling the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet (http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2005/06/jkontherun_gues.html) is what clued in most people to the potential of this device!

That and his incredible posts in this ersatz blog and its predecessor location.

Thank you, Mike. You were the first site I turned to every morning -- and then throughout the day to get my fix on 770 info.

-- Roger

alslayer

2005-09-01, 17:15

Dang!

Lots of stuff happening.

Mike Cane

2005-09-01, 17:17

What Roger said.

My last planned writing in the handheld field will be a review of the 770.

Maybe the title of this should now be changed, dropping my name.

RogerS

2005-09-01, 17:55

Well, we can't call it the "Mike Cane Memorial" blog, now can we?

alslayer

2005-09-01, 20:28

Who says we can't?

:)

RogerS

2005-09-01, 21:20

Hey, when did this show up on the application page of the wiki?

Maemo wiki:
wlan
http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ApplicationCatalog#head-14cdaeaa4b95c5cb06b1c0f2cc9a06fe349a8ddd
>>Let you watch TV everywhere in your wlan by using a special daemon which controls your dvb-card.

Cool pic. (http://www.internettablettalk.com/content/view/108/2/) I guess that means you need a card in a PC on your network to received digital broadcasts, too.

Edited to add --
Hey, see the links to two of the many articles about Nokia pushing Mobile TV services in the next post.

-- Roger Sperberg

RogerS

2005-09-01, 22:58

Nothing new, just some quick updates --

MobileRead forum post:
Nokia 770 gains FCC approval / soon on sale
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4874
>>via Nokia770 blog

Cyrus' Weblog:
Nokia 770 Receives FCC Approval
http://blog.m8z.org/index.php/2005/09/01/nokia-770-receives-fcc-approval/
>>something I’ve been waiting for a long time.
...
>>via Mobitopia
http://www.mobitopia.com/ which resolves to http://del.icio.us/tag/mobitopia

Edited to add more notices --

Darla Mack:
Nokia 770 Internet Tablet Gains FCC Approval
http://darlamack.blogs.com/darlamack/2005/09/nokia_770_inter.html
>>Me personally, I would love to carry this thing around with me. With Bluetooth and 802.11b Wifi, I'm sure this will make a perfect travel companion for most.
>>Via Mobileburn
Darla really covers the Nokia scene.

LinuxDevices.com:
FCC approves Linux-based Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6268618501.html
Repeats info from our front page and their previous postings.

Mobile Scraper:
Nokia 770 Recieves [sic] FCC Approval
http://mobile.gtascraper.com/article.php/153/Nokia-770-Recieves-FCC-Approval
Nothing new here, but clearly written from his own perspective and not just parroting what others have said.

And these strangely coincidental reports, among others, of Nokia's TV push:
SymbianOne:
Astro, Maxis & Nokia Showcase Live Mobile TV Broadcasting over DVB-H Technology:
>>Malaysia's leading cross-media operator Astro, together with ... global mobile device maker Nokia jointly showcased a live demonstration of Mobile TV Broadcasting ... in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
>>>The showcase used the new Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld (DVB-H) technology standard now undergoing extensive field trials in Europe, the USA and in other parts of Asia.

TechSpot:
Nokia thinks the time is right for Mobile TV
http://www.techspot.com/news/18585-Nokia-thinks-the-time-is-right-for-Mobile-TV.html
>>A trial of the [mobile TV] service ... earlier this year proved very popular, with some 58 per cent of participants saying that they believed that Mobile TV would be popular.
Makes me think that wlan app (in previous post) might be sponsored by "a telecommunications company based in Helsinki."

-- Roger Sperberg

RogerS

2005-09-02, 11:43

Friday, September 2, 2005
Still eagerly awaiting some news. But release is still listed as 3Q with no further details.

The countdown continues: 28 days till Sept 30, last day of 3Q.

And, hey, it's been one week since the FCC approved the 770, and Nokia USA still reports: The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet has not been authorized as required by the rules of the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC")* Get with the act, guys!

-- Roger Sperberg

RogerS

2005-09-02, 14:01

Let's hope the day's news are real news. But a rehash to start --

Gizmodo:
Nokia 770 Gets FCC Nod
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/nokia/nokia-770-gets-fcc-nod-123563.php
>>The 770 would be perfect as a coffee-table type appliance for quick Internet browsing while you’re watching TV, or if you prefer, while you’re on the toilet. And, just for everyone keeping score at home, it already plays Doom.

At last, somebody who doesn't use euphemisms, like Bill Gates did talking about people awkwardly trying to open their laptops in elevators. Come on, Bill, it was the men's room, wasn't it.

Anyway, the coffee table reference in this report makes me think this was rewritten from Mobile Scraper. Or are they both referring to an unreferenced ur-text? At any rate, they properly credit Reggie and itT for bringing their attention to Doom.

And some nice, informed speculation --
Blogzilla:
Mini Mozilla accelera la marcia [ Mozilla Minimo accelerates the march]
http://blogzilla.altervista.org/2005/09/mini-mozilla-accelera-la-marcia.html
>>The rapidity with which the development of Minimo is proceeding seems to strengthen the hypothesis that behind its plan hides one sponsor of exception like Nokia. According to some voices, in fact, the giant of the telefonini would be interested in the small browser of Mozilla house for its Internet Tablet. (Translation by Babelfish.)

There's apparently an aggressive development roadmap that's been mapped out for the Mozilla Minimo browser project this fall. It hasn't escaped people's attention that Minimo is the GPE browser, and GPE is running on our Internet Tablet platform. Is Nokia funding this push? Who would be surprised if they were?

Edited later to add --
askmeanything.org
http://www.daltonrooney.com/ask/index.php?p=24
>>(I) find the concept behind the Windows Tablet PC platform quite interesting. I think that, someday in the future, more and more computers will have built in touch screen interfaces that allow us to work more directly with the computer. In fact, I think the Nokia 770 is a great example of just such a device, and I can’t wait to buy one. It’s small, extremely portable and easy to use, with integrated wifi, web browsing, email and IM. Add in the built-in expandability to do a lot more because of its Linux architecture, and I suspect that it will be the perfect addition to many connected homes.

daltonrooney.com:
Askmeanything.org makes the front page!
http://www.daltonrooney.com/?p=588
Same guy, same content, different page.

Actually, this post is really about why his TabletPC didn't cut it. And there's a lesson here. BTW, his tablet weighed 5 pounds. No wonder it didn't fit in his lifestyle. Or anyone's.

And --
PDA Live:
Nokia 770 Tablet coming to U.S.
http://www.pdalive.com/showarticle.php?threadid=9792
Sounds like these guys just heard of the 770 for the first time.

-- Roger Sperberg

Mike Cane

2005-09-02, 19:58

....urrrrg...

There's lots about Nokia's MobileTV push in the Ortho blog.

It can be called "The Ersatz 770 Blog" (with a footnote somewhere, perhaps, with "Mike Cane, Founder" -- ha!).

And hmmmm... now that *you guys* are doing it, maybe Reggie should talk to *you guys* about using a *real* blog!?

alslayer

2005-09-02, 20:00

I got an interview with Marcelo Oliveira over at www.770fan.com. Any feedback would be great.
:cool:

RogerS

2005-09-02, 20:18

Al, this is great stuff!

Fantastic info. I knew there had to be a Tetris-like game in the works!

Congrats!

Edited to add --
Oof! I just read closer and realized Quake is not likely to show. But maybe Cidorvan can fix that texture/color problem in Prince of Persia.

RogerS

2005-09-02, 20:27

The photo I'm waiting to see is captioned "Mike Cane fondles Nokia 770"

We'll run it just below the line that says, "Mike Cane, blog founder"

RogerS

2005-09-03, 01:58

A bit more from Friday, since I'll be gone over the weekend --

Ari Jaaksi's Blog:
Better late than never ...
http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/2005/09/better-late-than-never.html
>>'m heading the Linux and open source development at Nokia, responsible e.g. for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet -software. We launched the product in May -- and now finalizing the software. I'm trying to stay calm -- there are a lot of things to take care of. But I'm lucky -- I'm surrounded by excellent people!

The blog subtitle notes: "This is a boring mostly work related blog -- I'm mostly figuring out if I have anything to write ;-)"

Ari, don't worry. No matter what you write, we'll be hanging on your every word.

Wait, there's more!
In Italy
http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/2005/09/in-italy_02.html
>>So I got to Italy ... to the beautiful lake Como. I'm writing this on my week 34 release of 770. Not bad ;-)

We're all eager to have the same experience -- the Italy part and the week 34 release part! (Imagine them together. Now that's a vacation!)

Nik's Tech:
Nokia 770 "Coffee Table"PC Gets FCC Approval
http://nicktech.blogspot.com/2005/09/nokia-770-coffee-tablepc-gets-fcc.html
>>This Baby is made completely with the purpose of Internet,With both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi built in,this shouldnt be to hard.
>>Via Mobileburn

goikoetxeta.com:
Nokia 770 autorizado para ser producido en masa
http://agregador.goikoetxeta.com/02-09-2005/nokia-770-autorizado-para-ser-producido-en-masa/
http://www.alt1040.com/archivo/2005/09/02/nokia-770-autorizado-para-ser-producido-en-masa/
>>Via Gizmodo
In Spanish, though. Identical content at two sites. Maybe goikoetxeta is an aggregation and alt1040 is the site being grabbed.

Portable Gadgets:
Making VoIP calls on Nokia 770 with Minisip
http://www.portablegadgets.net/article/39/making-voip-calls-on-nokia-770-with-minisip
>>Via Internet Tablet Talk

A curio --
i-Anya:
Portable, wireless, internet: The tablet
http://anya.blogsome.com/2005/05/26/portable-wireless-internet-the-tablet/
This one slipped through the cracks all these months. Contains longish article from the Sydney Morning Herald about the 770 and a bit about the Palm LifeDrive. But Anya, that's a picture of the Pepper Pad, not the Nokia 770.

-- Roger Sperberg

RogerS

2005-09-06, 11:34

Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Seems like eternity. But no news: release is still listed as 3Q with no further details.

The countdown continues: 24 days till Sept 30, last day of 3Q.

RogerS

2005-09-06, 11:47

Lots to catch up on, which I'll do over the course of the day --

Russell Beattie:
The Future of Mobility is Linux
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008610.html
>>Okay, I’ve had an opinion change I’d like to announce. I’m betting that the future of mobility will be Linux, and not Symbian, Windows or anything else.
...
>>First I’ll start with the final epiphany and work backwards. The latest news I’ve seen about the Nokia 770 is that it’s going to have a host of applications ready for it at launch, including VoIP software, streaming media, chat applications, Doom, etc. The thing that’s so amazing about this is that the 770 is essentially the *same exact hardware* that’s on my Nokia 6680, yet the development pace for the 770 is way more rapid. In addition, there’s at least a half a dozen blogs and bloggers dedicated to the device, and it hasn’t even launched yet. This shows the power of an open environment and the draw of Linux and its fans.

Big change of heart here, with all the reasons laid out in detail. He's talking Linux on mobile phones, but many of his points apply to the "ultra mobile"/"internet tablet"/web pad niche.

MyBlog:
Why Nokia 770?
http://bonte.co.uk/myBlog/?p=13
>>A lot of discussion is taking place on the positioning of the Nokia 770. However, in my opinion, it’s overwhelmingly clear what the single reason of existence of the Nokia 770 is: internet viewing at full width of 800 pixels avoiding horizontal browsing. No other (small) device is curently offering this: highest resolution is limited to a width of 640 pixels (pocket pc, series 80, series 90,…) which all still require horizontal browsing. And this comes at a price which is unlikely to be beaten by any pocket pc at a higher future resolution…!
MyBlog:
On Mobility
http://bonte.co.uk/myBlog/?p=12
>>There is a bewildering choice in UI variations, form factors, size, weight, features,… demonstrating that mobility takes on a lot of different meanings for different people, or rather showing the restless quest for the successful UI / form factor…time wil tell who the winner(s) are…
>>However, it is possible to define 3 categories who will most probably prevail.
...
>>3. Small internet tablet (Wifi + BT) > focus on display (minimum 800 pixels wide) for internet viewing
>>Linux or Windows? Winner : Linux due to small footprint and efficiency

Things are becoming clearer to a lot of people, it seems.

Edited to add --
Ari Jaaksi's Blog:
McLaren should be open!
http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/2005/09/mclaren-should-be-open.html
>>I tried to get my 770 on wifi at the Monza track. All the networks were closed. I think McLaren should let 770 users in! A friend of mine Mikko Valimaki (http://www.valimaki.org/) suggested last week in Helsingin Sanomat (a Finnish newspaper) that everybody should leave their wifi networks open. If we dare to drive a car, we should dare to let others use our access points for free. Risks are much smaller and it costs much less than driving a car. Well, I've always kept my wifi open for anybody who happens to need it.
>>McLaren didn't.

It might sound like special pleading from a 770 manager/architect, but I look at it the other way -- people thinking this way at Nokia have acted on their beliefs in their design of the Internet Tablet.

BTW, I agree.

Handful of Nothing:
BattleGweled Interest
http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/archives/battlegweled-interest
>>I’m pretty happy with the interest rising on this simple game. It was supposed to be only a port of Gweled (a clone of Bejeweled) but in the end and with a lot of talk I convinced the guys to add a multiplayer feature to it.

Fuller detail and photo on front page. Hey, I revisited this site because of Al's interview with Marcelo Oliveira in 770fan. That was a scoop. This is just a crumb that fell out of the interview.

Darla Mack:
Txtdrop
http://darlamack.blogs.com/darlamack/2005/09/us_and_canada_g.html
>>txtDrop.com offers US and Canadian residents free PC texting service to mobile phones.
>>Our goal is to make web based text messaging free and as easy as possible. Which is why we let you do everything in one easy step, on one simple webpage. Using our database driven technology, txtDrop enables users in the United States and Canada to send text messages with instant delivery. No more need to pay your cellular provider up to 10 cents for sending your friend a text. Just enter your name, your friends mobile number and your message and we'll send your text instantly. Completely free of charge.
>>via: Textually

Sounds like an effective way to connect with your cell-phone friends using your 770.
-- Roger Sperberg